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WINNING! (But With Less Tiger Blood) 25 Jul 2013 | 08:32 am
By noon today, I had pretty much won. I figured out how to make the fake pockets on my shirt lay flat, without the aid of an iron, or safety pins. I formulated a plan to (legally) get human remains ...
Conversations With a 7 Year Old (Temporary) Only Child 17 Jul 2013 | 06:37 am
I . “Mom, what’s a bachelor party?” “It’s a party that men have before their wedding, one last night to go out and get crazy before they’re married.” “Do they take their girlfriends?” “No, it’s us...
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” ― Groucho Marx 16 Jul 2013 | 07:58 am
My daughter is an angel, with the black soul of a Capital C Capitalist. She is sweet and scattered and lovely. Until money enters the picture. At which point, she acquires a drive and ferocity that l...
And there will come a day…. 14 Jul 2013 | 02:15 am
…when you are standing at your kitchen sink, hand washing some dishes that you could have put into the dishwasher, but the light plastic containers fly around in there so badly that its pretty much no...
Innies vs. Outies (Not a Belly Button Story) 7 Jan 2013 | 09:07 am
The city in which I live has a fair number of traffic circles. They’ve fallen out of favor in several parts of the world. Too tough to navigate. (I did a brief stint temp-ing at the city’s transportat...
“No, THAT’S Love.” 4 Jan 2013 | 10:20 am
I have begun to tire of winter. It is no longer charming, or a lead up to Christmas. It is cold and stupid and irrelevant, now. So today, I thought of summer. This past summer, we took a lovely trip …...
Lines. 3 Jan 2013 | 09:28 am
What is it about line-ups that perplexes us so? You would think that Canadians would be pretty kick-ass line citizens. We are polite and friendly to a fault. And we live in a quasi-socialist country...
Back to Life, Back to Reality 2 Jan 2013 | 06:57 am
It’s over. Christmas. New Year’s. The whole damn thing. (I have to resist the urge to grab random strangers on the street, shake them by the shoulders, while gleefully yelling “WE MADE IT!!!!”) The t...
Happy F&%#ing New Year 1 Jan 2013 | 06:31 am
Everyone has spangly, sparkly plans for New Years Eve. My children are no exception. They are looking forward to staying up late, eating junk, drinking fake champagne at midnight. But more than all ...
Blogger’s Thigh: A Totally Real (and Sort of Pre-Existing) Condition 31 Dec 2012 | 09:34 am
This whole “coming back to blogging” thing has been pretty cool. It reminded me that I feel more “right” when I’m writing. Yeah, it’s a good thing. Mostly. The other morning, I’m in the bathroom, doin...
