Categorizing Things is Overrated

  • Manic Monday

    I am having a not too fabulous day today, for no particular reason.  Well, actually, for about a million particular reasons that, taken singly, are completely surmountable obstacles, but when you get them…

  • Grrr

    For the first time I got "in trouble" for breastfeeding in public.  I was down a side hall in a low traffic area of the convention center in Nashville, my mother sat on…

  • Patrick Will Be Pleased

    In briefly perusing my statistics for who’s been checking me out, I discovered that someone landed here after google searching "deadbeat husbands who do no work."   My deadbeat husband is probably at…

  • Mommy Wars

    So.  Any time somebody talks to you about their own life, and you have a parallel experience, you gotta listen to their story and react to it and care about it, rather than…

  • I Do

    Daniel and Elizabeth Berry Rose (that is really her name – delightful, no?) were married by her father on a wide green lawn in the shadow of the Tetons.  The eight bridesmaids were…