My heart was broken last week + a rant
Some of you, maybe all of you, may know that I supervise lunch hour and afternoon recess at a couple of our local schools. At one school, I police kindergarten…
The June Cleaver of Keswick. Only fatter. And funnier, with more kids and fewer aprons.
Some of you, maybe all of you, may know that I supervise lunch hour and afternoon recess at a couple of our local schools. At one school, I police kindergarten…
These are two life lessons that I come to a little late in life. I may have mentioned a time or two before about being an only child. Perk –…
I’ve been A.W.O.L. for a while now, unable to do much of anything other than basic ‘life’ and have, in all honesty barely been doing an adequate job at that,…
Keswick Public School had a family dance tonight. Since a couple of our smalls attend there, I dressed up my crew and off we went. And we had FUN! If…
So I learned something today. Disappointingly enough, it turns out that ladybugs are assholes. There. I said it. And I don’t regret it. Ladybugs are absolutely outright assholes. And they…
Once, years and years ago, my son Declan and I were dropping off a bunch of things for donation at our local Goodwill. It was a Sunday, so they were…
Now, if I could just lose 50 pounds, figure out how I’d like my hair done, and work up the courage to use my (very beautiful, very fancy, and very…
It is easy to forget that the place where you live is not the only place in the world. It is easy to forget that what is easy and readily…
I came home to Keswick only to find that my garden vegetables converted into the vegetable equivalent of ‘Girl’s Gone Wild’ meet ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ More about our vacation…
In the beginning, Keswick (finally) got a Bargain Shop (TBS!). Then Wal-Mart opened. Bad news for TBS!, so they closed their doors (and are currently undergoing a court-supervised corporate restructuring,…