Today Loren and Cassidy started back to school and I began my new job at a new school. We aren’t a household to boast about our coolness with transitions. Although the three of us reported back with good days, the upheaval of ending the easy glide of summer break and jumping back into the order [...]

Today I gardened. Not sure if that is a verb but if it wasn’t before, it now is. Not only did I garden but I also began my training of a half marathon this fall. Anybody who knows me will understand the humor in this for I have a front side that most definitely should [...]

Caloden has recently experienced a security breach or sorts, although that would be going a bit far since this site has never been password protected or secretly hidden anywhere. Somehow, some way some individuals who I know and see most of days of the week found my blog and, so I surmise, have passed it [...]

Today I was on the phone with Kelly Lynne chatting about nothing in particular when she inquired if she could share something with me. We chat on a near daily basis and know some pretty serious stuff about one another so I didn’t really think much of her request and said, “bring it on, why [...]

Anne Lamott writes somewhere in one of her books about the only two kinds of prayers: please and thank you. I had actually forgotten this until I was recently re-reading Eat, Love, Pray and that author, I have forgotten her name, mentions this fact. As soon as I read it I was transported back to [...]

Sometimes I picture motherhood, or parenthood if we are being all equal opportunity here, as series of stats They would read something like this:

Drama on a daily basis is a must. Expect it. If it doesn’t show up, surely it will come back to bite you in the ass and you will end up suffering [...]