Asks Claire, in a whiny voice at dinner last night.  And without missing a beat Lucas says “so we don’t grow up to be dumb asses.” Gotta… Read more “"Why Do We Hafta Go To School?”

With only one of our boys playing travel hockey this season, for the first time in six years, I have gotten out of practice and have forgotten… Read more “My Two Words of the Day ~ Try and Aim”

…of my new “first” novel.  It is said that most first novels are a piece of crap.  Well, the thing is I really like my true first… Read more “Chapter 1”

I feel a bit off-kilter, out of whack and completely scattered today.  I am having a hard time regaining my equilibrium and focus. Today I had a meeting… Read more “My Heart Hurts a Little Today”

To my little loves who aren’t so little anymore, You all have grown up so quickly.  It seems like just last year that we stood in line… Read more “New Year’s Wishes For My Children”

Last night was New Year’s Eve…our first New Year’s Eve with a legal teenage driver in the house.  Yesterday I had grand plans for a New Year’s… Read more “Scared Shitless”

Ahhhh…young love.  I’ve been thinking a lot about young love lately and not because I’m looking back and pining for a lost love.  I have the love… Read more “Young Love”

In our lives we have all seen tragedies…each one seeming to over shadow the last.  The first I remember was the bombing of the Murrah Federal Buildings… Read more “Believe”

Ah, Bella.  Why must you disobey me every day and drink out of the toilet?  Really?  The toilet?  And then you expect to give me wet, slobbery… Read more “What Part of "Don’t Drink Out of the Toilet" Don’t You Understand?”