I rarely watch prime time television. For one thing we got rid of the cable about a year ago. For another, most nights are simply to busy with homework and Dr. Zuess to allow for any spare time. But due to a lovely change in our parenting plan I now have Sunday nights to myself [...]

I am out of good reading. Some of my favorite bloggers have not been updating as of late and I have recently given up smut books in favor of meaningful literature. Some of my other favorites update on a religious basis but I am needy, and simply put I need more. So if anybody happens [...]

Please. Please. Please. Somebody, somewhere tell me that this teen thing will pass. That my formerly sweet son will return from this ass that has invaded his being. If only that can be true then I can survive this hell of parenting a 14 year-old boy.

At first I was all wanting to go hop around in the bayou to wallow in the mud and rigget at the moon. Then I was thinking about barfing up my last three meals in order to get so svelte. Then I saw that wacky German? And all I could think of was how sexy [...]

Three years ago at just about this time of year I was beginning to pull my hair out and forget really basic things like my children’s names and my PIN numbers, it was always an adventure to go to the ATM and realize I hadn’t the foggiest idea of how to get funds out of [...]

The un-spring continues to plague the mountain scape outside my windows. Most mornings there is a new blanket of white that melts into brown goo by mid-morning and plasters to my car and soul. Devon is the only one of us who seems to revel in the unexpected joy of endless mud puddles and the [...]

The longer I travel this mommy path, the more I realize how screwed I am. Not the sunniest outlook, but it’s all I can manage at the moment. I remember when Loren was about three and it was just him and me living together in our small apartment while I finished up school. We spent [...]