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My sister K. has a Myspace blog and yesterday, her birthday (Happy Belated Birthday!), she wrote a post about driving across a bridge and imaging her car going over the edge.
Would she try to save herself? Would she drown? Would she suddenly, under pressure, learn to swim?
And she also pondered the [...]

Last night, trying to be ambitious and actually accomplish something in the evening (other than my normal “making dinner, pestering kids about homework, picking one child up, dropping another one off, throwing in a load of laundry, do a load of dishes” evening) I decided to repair a pair of pants that had ripped at [...]

I was talking to my dad yesterday and happened to mention my BFF, SS, who, btw, works at a strip club. And my dad says “Oh, did SS mention that I ran into her?”
Me: “Um, no.” (She really didn’t.)
Him: “I told her not to mention that she saw me. I [...]

Taylor’s hardest class is Biology; his teacher has high expectations and it’s nice to see Taylor work hard to do well. (He just got his first grade report in high school-seven “A’s” and one “B,” in Biology, of course!)
His first Biology project of the year is about bugs. He has [...]

Reagan lied to us. She asked to go to her friend Ashleley’s house and we said “Yes. Are you going anyplace else?”
“No,” she assured us, “just Asheley’s.”
Total B.S.
She and Ash met up with two boys that are in their grade and they walked around town. Ash is dating one of [...]

This has been a busy week, especially for Reagan, who has had cheerleading, declamation, basketball practice, chorus and a meeting for her upcoming middle school D.C. trip.
Speaking of chorus, last night Reagan told me, “I’m a soprano but want to be an alto and Maggie is an alto and wants to be a [...]

This morning I got up early to drive Reagan and her friend, V., to Declamation.
V. said “I had a Toaster Strudel this morning.”
I responded, “Oh, yes, I remember when those first came out, when I was a child.”
Reagan’s smart-ass response: “Back when there were dinosaurs?”
Yes, back when there [...]

I was lying on my bed in my underpants watching Project Runway with my daughter and she said “Can you stop tapping your feet?”
But I’m trying to develop a nervous habit! My thought is it will burn off some extra calories. I told her that maybe I just burnt off a crumb [...]

My son is working on a “family health tree” project for health class. It’s similar to a regular family tree, but includes health information such as who smokes/smoked, who has/had high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, etc.
On Labor Day, while we had family gathered, Taylor and I went around and asked everyone questions such [...]