keep passing the open windows

My son Taylor turned 13 on Thanksgiving.  And, like magic, he has suddenly become a teenager.  Not just in age, but appearance and attitude. 
For example, Taylor has never cared about clothing.  Other than comfort, that is.  He spent the first 12 years of his life only wearing windpants, t-shirts and special “blue bottom” socks that […]

This has been a bit of a rocky Christmas.  I have been really grumpy this month, then feeling really guilty about feeling grumpy.  Then feeling guilty that I am wasting my time feeling guilty and grumpy, when really, life is good.  My family is healthy; my husband and I both have decent jobs.  We have a […]

I thought of a number of suitable reasons for my writing negligence, illness, company, housecleaning, shopping, extra-curricular activities, etc.  But it really all comes down to laziness, oh, and lack of imagination. 
We have had a weird stomach ache/headache/sore throat thing going on in our household, but not bad enough to really sideline anyone.
This was my husbands first […]

Last night I met my good friend Katrina in Peoria; the plan was to attend a cooking class at a college extension ofice.  I arrived late (surprise!) and upon a bit of reflection Katrina and I decided to go shopping instead.  Because, you know, we wouldn’t want to interrupt a cooking lesson, it was really a decision […]

I finally spoke to my mom today, well kind of, via email.  She said she has been really unhappy for a really long time and gets really depressed about her relationship with my dad and that she has stayed with him for so long due to the many traumatic things that  have happened to our family over […]

1. I used to be a nude model for figure drawing classes at ICC.
2. I’m an atheist (okay, I don’t think this is weird, but a lot of people do)
3. I hate any meat that is anyway ground up, it doesn’t matter what kind of meat it is, yet I will eat sushi. 
4. As a child I […]

Last night my husband and I braved the poor weather and bad streets and went to eat at Vonachan’s Old Place.  It was pretty nice. We had the calamari which was okay.  The breading was pretty but the calamari tasted oddly sweet, and the dipping sauce lacked any bite at all.  It wasn’t bad, per se, […]

I grew up in Sunnyland (a small, unicorporated area outside of Washington, aka “scummyland,” home of the “745 boys” and most of the burnouts in Washington).  My mom worked as a secretary and my dad was a factory worker at Cat.  My dad also happened (oh, and still is) to be an alcoholic.  He always went […]

 Maybe I should have entitled this entry “The Blizzard of 2006.”
Watching the closings on a local station-lots of chiropractic offices, childcare providers, and inexplicably “Mad Tatoos”….  Guess my plan to get my daughter’s friends an “I attended Reagan’s 12th birthday party and all I got was this lousy tattoo” tattoo is out the window. 
I’ll continue the “Mom Left […]