I recently won a major award. Oh wait, not that. This: The above is an award currently circulating among bloggers, and Magic Cookie decided I was an interesting enough person that she would bestow it upon me. Although I like her blog 50% less since she got rid of the dinosaur in her header, I’m…
Category: Navel Gazing (and I Don’t Mean Oranges)
Distracted
I just read an article about being a distracted parent. It was a bit overwrought in my opinion – MAN, do twenty first century parents really know how to beat ourselves up – but its point is one I take. And even before I read this article, I knew that this topic was the parenting…
Resolutions
I am one of those people that likes to make resolutions. I do my best work when I have some sort of external driver, even if I create the external driver my own self. Plus, it’s tradition. So, in the spirit of the yearly tradition of trying to be better, here are my 2012 resolutions:…
Giving Thanks
On this lovely, warm, twinkling Thanksgiving morning, surrounded by family, hot coffee in hand, warm fire aglow in the corner, I am thankful for all of my many blessings. Attorney at Large wrote a lovely post about being grateful for even those things that don’t feel like blessings, and I thought that it would be a…
Sadly, not a Wedding Update
I hate to disappoint, but I gotta get this one right, and I also gotta get some photos from somebody else (alas, my camera wires are still AWOL). Ergo, my wedding update post will arrive a few days hence. The very short version of the story is this: I don’t know why, but knowing that…