Welcome to the club—of mom haters

I’m late to the party with this but I’m going to post about it anyway. Even though a whole bunch of other bloggers already covered it thoroughly and I’m just saying the same bloody things. I’m still pissed after watching the video clip on Friday of Melissa Summers talking about cocktail play dates on NBC. [...]

My house on the hill

I uploaded some photos that I took last month when I did the cupcake shots. I remember how I worked late and Lila and I watched the moon the whole way home, so plump and golden and right there in front of us so exaggerated. We rushed into the house to drop off our stuff [...]

What if it’s just a midlife crisis and I should get a Harley

My mind’s doing the hamster wheel thing again, cycling around and around an endless loop of what if. What if I can take important things like my ideals, my passions, my talents and my curiosity and channel them into an entrepreneurial livelihood? What if it’s possible to connect a personally profitable business with community outreach? [...]

How long…how long must we sing this song

Where’s my whaaaaaambulance? What a week. I had Lila home every day with what we finally determined on Wednesday was a nasty case of the latest flu virus sweeping its way across the midwest. Her fever finally broke after six days, but she’s still runny and has a crippling periodic cough. But I’m out of [...]

Movement and stagnation

It’s snowing after another warm spell with a ton of rain. We’ve had some flooding in the area, though this house is built up on a hill so it hasn’t affected us unless we’re on the road. Still, I wish we could get a good winter snow dump going instead of these piddling snow showers [...]

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