Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

I’m back.  And I’m busy.  Can you believe I have more "HOT" stuff on my desk after one week of vacation than I did after six weeks of maternity leave?   I have pictures.  I have stories.  I posted a video that will be vaguely interesting to our family and not interesting at all to anyone…

Lots of things are Smokin’ Hot today! My oven.  I baked a quiche and two dozen cookies this morning, to take to some sick work folks.  Lest you think I am too angelic, full disclosure: I had to get rid of a dozen eggs that were past their date (!) by a week (!) and…

Went to the gym for the first time post-baby today, and aside from being stuck riding the stationary bike next to a small-minded, idiotic, loudmouth bigot, it was a good experience.  (Seriously folks – he actually said that he believed in social Darwinism – though he doesn’t believe in Darwin because he himself is a "solid"…

When confronted with a delicious and beautiful infant of indeterminate sex (see picture above), a passerby who wishes to compliment the baby has several choices confronting him/her.  He/she may:   (a) avoid pronouns; i.e. What a beautiful child!  or How darling!  You must be so proud.   (b) ask outright; i.e. So lovely!  Is this beautiful baby a…

I changed to a new beachy color, just for kicks.   As you can see from my picture above, we made it to the beach ourselves already this summer.  We went up for one day, my last day of maternity leave.  As it turned out, my college roomie Jennifer was at a North Carolina beach…