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A double-whammy Divorciversary, coming soon to a Mama Near You!

Tempus fugit, no? And isn’t it funny how these things escape your notice!

Although we had separated back in 1999, I was determined that my husband should seek and pay for the divorce. He sought the arms of another, let HIM be responsible for legally ending it. It took him until 2001 to realize [...]

The Right to Choose

I abhor polarizing issues. Truely, honestly. I resent the hell out of being “either/or” when the reality is – I’m both. Don’t tell me it’s a black or white issue. Between black and white is the rainbow. Because of this annoyingly restrictive black or white box everyone insists on placing the issue [...]

Love and Hate with Blogstats

So I had downloaded and installed a neat plugin for WordPress called Counterize II. The general idea was to see if it would replace BlogPatrol and SiteMeter as my stats tracker. The short answer is: No – it didn’t.

I sat and stared as the graph moved up and down. I sat and stared [...]

Step2 toys has my undying adoration.

In this review I had mentioned that our Deluxe Canyon Road Train & Track Table was significantly worse for the wear.

I made a phone call (the 800 number for customer service is OH so helpfully engraved into the bottom of the table) and mentioned that the decal system had completely failed, and that [...]

D’ya want fries with that?

Doesn’t he look so sweet with all his hair flying up in static electricity objection? He’s turned me into something I swore up and down I’d never consider becoming. Not even for a moment. Every time someone brought it up, I swore That Would Not Happen to Me Because I Would Put [...]

The Hazards of Reacting Instead of Acting

Subtitled: The Hazards of being married to (A Man Like That)

Last night I got a phone call. The teen on the phone spewed a lot of upset words at me, so I did what any reasonable parent would do – I went to pick up my daughter (and friend) and Get To [...]

My 7 in ’07

Resolution. Such a heavy word for something the entire world blithely blurts out after an all-night holiday season capping party and then whines and whinges their way out of almost immediately. Should I use such a word to describe these things on what is basically my colossal to-do list? Dare I? Perhaps I should [...]