About a week ago Loren and I were driving to his spring guitar presentation. I always enjoy the moments when I can spend time just with him. And as often happens with Loren, I just drove and listened while he rattled on in a sort of non-stop stream of free association. “Yeah, so did [...]

If I had a boyfriend he would totally be one of these guys. They are so Ron Burgundy from the Anchorman movie with Will Ferrell. And that music? Damn, it just drips with bumpy sex on some sort of animal hair rug. I can smell the Stetson cologne now.
Thank you, Kelly Lynn, for sending these [...]

A few years ago I had a post Christmas gig at a swanky home not too far from where I live. I happen to dwell in a normal area but not too far from here the obscenely rich and famous come every December 23 and stay to party and be seen until just after New [...]

Sometimes I like to envision myself as something of a caped super hero as I wend my way along my path of motherhood. It might be a bit grandiose, but it beats the hell out of biting my nails and makes the time go much more smoothly. Take this afternoon for example. Devon had been [...]

A little over a year ago, my friend Kelly Lynn said to me one day, “Hey, did you know you can watch TV online?”
It is well known that I am technically challenged when it comes to most anything that has a cord attached to it or contains microchips and I replied, “Um, no. How is [...]

Yesterday afternoon I took Devon to watch one of Cassidy’s soccer games. I far prefer the games that fall on Matt’s days or weekends so that I can watch the game in peace while he chases Devon all over the field. It is something I should help with but don’t and that I justify by [...]

If you happen to be a little guy, say just a smidge over 3 1/2 years-old, and absolutely cannot hack foods with any sort of texture in your mouth, then something like gum is no good. Something that remains in your mouth, continues to be chewy and simply won’t go the fuck away: that is [...]

There are a few things in this world that I am and many more than I am not. I am a decent mother, a whiz when it comes to colors and I can make things look pretty. But for the rest? Um, no. On that list of no’s is my desire to be a [...]

One of the things about having an explosive teen issue is that I have recently come to appreciate some of the other aspects of my life just a bit more. For example, I don’t much care for children until they are about five or six years-old; I like them to be able to wipe their [...]