Our Christmas Card to You

We moved to New Mexico when I was about 13 years old.  My mom, God bless her, was a single mom with three little girls, working and struggling to make ends meet without any help from my father or family.  We three girls spent a lot of time alone waiting for mom to get home [...]

Colorful Moments

I just read something somewhere that reminded me of a particular time in my life that always makes me feel good.  The timing was perfect because I’ve been feeling inspired by little things like, the weather, a song, the light of the day, colors on the ground and in the sky, the turn of a [...]

What a Biotch

Jupiter Retrograde, my assonino.
Evidently, it’s affecting my relationship with my truck.  And here I was worried some friend, family member, or co-worker and I were going to have it out.  Oh… No…  Uh-uh.

Beginning of June: big ol’ rock, tossed by a freakin’ Toyota Tercel, hits my windshield and now I have a huge crack slinking [...]

Dun May Me Get to Fwee!

D-man has had an incredible amount of energy lately and it seems we are constantly yelling, “STOP RUNNING IN THE HOUSE!” at him every fifteen minutes. This morning, amidst the dogs pooping and peeing on the floor (I just let them in from outside; the bastards!), my not feeling well, laundry everywhere, D-man was, once [...]

The Last Four Hours of My First Half Century

…Is being spent eating Toaster Strudel (Boston Creme and Raspberry!) and Fig Newton’s, watching “Australia” (for the second time), waiting for the second season premier of “Breaking Bad”, and having hilarious conversations with D-man.
D-man: “DeMommy? Yo birtday tomowoh?”
Me: “Mhmmm…”
D-man: “How owd you be? Fitty?”
Me: (cracking up) “Who told you that?”
D-man: “I dunno. Wan me sing [...]

A Moveable Feast

What I see:
A turquoise necklace, two bottles of pink nail polish(each a different shade and manufacturer), a bottle of Bufferin aspirin, a green calculator, a cylindrical, meshed-metal pen holder holding no less than fifteen “special“ pens/pencils, three rulers, a pair of wire cutters, a metal ball with chimes inside, Pablo Neruda’s “The Captain Verses”, Hampton [...]

Kidism’s

I can’t believe how far we’ve come since our first Christmas together.  The boys seem to have grown-up so much!  This is a post from our first Christmas together and it still cracks me up.  We were still in Chicago when this took place.
Enjoy!
Kidisms; it’s a Yiddish term.
Last night we were sitting at the dinner [...]

Knickknack, Paddy-Whack

I’ve only ever been arrested once in my life. I know; hard to believe, right? HA! I was 19-20 years old and belonged to a group named, “Abalone Alliance.” It was an anti-nuke group and we were protesting the building and opening of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in San Luis Obispo (technically in Avila [...]

Tidbit Tuesday

I switched over the swamp coolers today. That’s plural because I did my mom’s and then did ours. Hers was a cinch but ours is proving a bit more problematic. First of all, I fell off the damned ladder. Not exactly fall-fall, more like slipped, slid, fell, scrambled, scraped, lunged, jumped… scraping myself along the [...]

Burrito Blankets and a Cuppa Sumatra

I woke up and immediately asked for coffee. Then I was told that I was a blanket-hog all night. Yes, there is a chill in the air… it was only 53 degrees when I woke up this morning. This caused the boys to sleep longer than usual. Each of them was wrapped tight in their [...]