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Smile when I’m dead.

I’m in the car. I’m stuck in late afternoon traffic, with Bam Bam chomping  quietly on a biscuit in the backseat. I stop at a red light and look out my driver’s side window. It’s a cemetery. There is a burial in progress. There are about 15 people gathered before the gravesite. The rest of [...]

It’s my blogiversary. Yay! I’m confused.

I’m so big and strong now. I know so much. I’m all grown up. Look at me! I can walk. That’s it- I can walk. It has been one year since my very first post. Like most one year olds, I feel like a champion because of everything I’ve learned and experienced, as I stand, [...]

Text speak immersion therapy.

I spend a lot of time online, but just can’t bring myself to embrace the “net lingo.”  I’m a texter who hates text speak. I feel like it’s cheating, or maybe I just love words so much, that I don’t want to cut them off at the limbs. That’s what it feels like to me. [...]

I was going to look for a new OB/GYN, but then I used her bathroom.

So… I decided to get a new OB/GYN. I like mine, but I don’t LOVE her. And I am often jealous of women who speak of their OB’s like they are best friends. I hear stories of ladies who talk to their Gynies about everything from sex to nutrition to tequila. There are people out [...]

A little math lesson

Okay, I’m back! I know you’ve missed me, and I will try very hard not to vanish for so long any time soon. I’ve been gone for oh- so- long, dealing with invisible bugs, and weird crap that I’m sure I’ll tell you about soon enough. But, as my returning gift to you- I give [...]