An oldie but a truie.

August 17, 2011

This originally went out into the world the same week my first born started kindergarten – August of 2008. I’ve re-posted it each August as he enters every new grade. We’re now up to 3rd. Sigh. This year, I had to change it up a little as my newest, and last, kindergartner starts his adventure. May [...]

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Like voting or dropping a dime on your neighbor running his sprinklers, consider this your civic duty.

August 10, 2011

I have a lifelong, dear friend who is kind enough to come around these parts and usually tell it like it is. You guys know her as NavyWife. I know her as ex-party girl who once helped me hide liquor in a frat house turned Super Mom to four kids who now keeps the home [...]

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In case you think I’m a 100% cold-hearted cynic.

July 18, 2011

I was born to a Disney Family. (August 1974 – Disney World. That’s me passed out, exhausted from too many hours of pure bliss. Difficult to tell, I know, with that hairdo. Yes, my mother was excited to have a girl. That’s my older brother holding my Pooh and sucking his thumb, sorry brother. That’s [...]

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Failure is the only option.

June 21, 2011

Being on the sidelines of blogging is an interesting place to exist. I find myself with more time to poke around and really feel like an idiot parent. The most recent infraction added to my rap sheet – I chose to have my sons circumcised. I know! Turns out I’ve ruined their sex life because of my (actually [...]

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Not exactly motivational poster material.

May 16, 2011

North Texas has recently been blessed with weather the likes of which I’ve never seen – mid May and 72 degrees. Are you kidding me? I’ve proclaimed my emerging love for this state in the past, but now I’m prepared to do dirty things to it just so that I might stay. In an effort [...]

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A different perspective.

April 19, 2011

Today marks the third time the 19th has come around since my friend passed in January. I’ve blessedly moved beyond that point in early grieving when you have to remind yourself that your loved one is gone. Now I smile when I think of her, wonder how her family is doing, say a prayer for [...]

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“To Go”

April 14, 2011

The Red Dress Club fiction prompt this week was just too tempting to pass up, so here I am. I needed a break from the NaNocraptastic anyway. Thanks ladies for providing an excellent distraction – “One week after attending the funeral of a close friend, you receive a postcard in the mail with the words, ‘I’m [...]

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And the winner is…

April 12, 2011

Sorry for the delay. Youngest slept in (Yay). More writing was accomplished (bigger YAY!) The lucky winner of not only The Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life, but also Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife is….   Yes Mother, I know I need to work on my penmanship. Congratulations Tracie at from Tracie! I’m [...]

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The Literary Ladies – never again feel alone in your writery world.

April 6, 2011

Over a million years ago, my friend Lee at Moms Without Blogs asked me to write a book review. I was nervous about it because, well, I’m a horrible liar. Lucky for me though, author Nava Atlas did not disappoint. So when I discovered Ms. Atlas’ newest project, I was over the moon when she offered a review copy for [...]

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Ugly Duckling Song

March 18, 2011

Call it fate, kismet, coincidence, nothing, whatever you believe, but when The Red Dress Club ladies provided this week’s prompt, it felt as if they handed me a sign - write about a time when you took a detour. Where had you intended to go and where did you end up? A fiction piece crossed my mind at first. I [...]

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