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Yesterday Reagan’s bully, Miranda, knocked down another student, A., in anger over A. flirting with her boyfriend.
She received a one day suspension from school. From the same principal that told me a suspension wasn’t useful in punishing Miranda because she doesn’t want to be at school anyway. A. is the daughter [...]

Fred came to fix my dryer. He said “You know this is the third time I’ve fixed this thing. The first time it wouldn’t turn off, the second time it would turn off spontaneously and now it won’t turn on at all.” (There’s a Viagra joke in there somewhere.)
It was [...]

This was a weird morning. First my cell phone did the “missed call” ring at 6:03 am, over an hour before I had to get up. I don’t know how I missed a call since the phone was right next to the bed all night. Then it rang again, a minute [...]

I’m living in fear.
I’m superstitious and believe bad things happen in threes.
And last night my dryer broke. (With one wet load in it, one wet load in the washer and no clean towels in the house.)
Then my mixer took a dive. (In the midst of whipping egg whites for a souffle.)
What’s next? [...]

Taylor had a good time at the dance. Too bad you can’t tell it by his expression in the picture of him and his date, J. My friend NHBC called his expression “deer in the headlights.” Alternately it could be, “OMG, J. is touching me!”
Yes, at my son’s middle school [...]

Today’s paper had an article about a 19-year-old pregnant woman attacked by four men. Maybe I’m jaded by too much news viewing but the thing that struck me most in the article was not the brutality of beating a pregnant woman but the following sentence:
“The group did not attempt to rob her but did [...]

I was talking to a fellow blogger one day about blogging and anonymity. Once you aren’t anonymous, even to a few people, does it effect the way you blog? I think so.
For example, yesterday morning I was showering and my husband walked into the bathroom and hopped in the tub. [...]

Getting in the car this morning, Chris said “Reagan’s being grumpy.”
I replied “Wow, and she doesn’t even know the bad news.”
The kids both sat in the backseat, frozen with uncertainty. Finally, Reagan said “What ‘bad news?’”
Me: (nonchalantly) “Oh, Ms. B. called the other night and asked us to chaperone at the dance.” [...]

I was asked to chaperone this Friday’s middle school dance, I said “Yes” and graciously offered up the services of my husband, too. Now comes my dilemma, how to tell the kids. Last year when I told them we were chaperoning they both cried. There were many proclamations of “You’re ruining my [...]

This falls under the catagory of “Hairy Muffin“
Last night Reagan walked up to me and said “I just changed my name on Myspace to ‘Good Wood’ “
To clarify, “Wood” is my kids’ last name. (My last name is hyphenated.)
You can guess where my mind leapt.
I asked the obvious question: “Why?”
She responded: [...]