Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

In paging through my most recently posted pictures, it occurred to me that perhaps I should explain: the wine I am drinking copious amounts of at my brother-in-law’s 30th birthday is non-alcoholic wine that comes in a wine bottle with a wine label and a wine vintage year and everything, so when you pour it into…

Yesterday as I was dressing for my morning doctor’s appointment, Patrick screeched my name from the front room.  "JESUS, Gill, you gotta see this!  Holy COW!"  "What, what??" I say, totally excited to see something that would make my mild-mannered husband EXCLAIM in ALL CAPITALS to me before 9 in the morning.  "OH MY GOD,…

Indulge me.  I promise, only once weekly pregnancy complaint blogs from here on out.  Since today was a doctors appointment and I got some mucho-uncomfortable poking and prodding in my delicate parts, and I also slept NOT AT ALL last night, and I’m here at work with a kazillion things to do, I think today…

I was in the lobby of our local urgent care yesterday with an injured employee, waiting to be seen.  The lobby was full, with one whole row of seats filled with Mexican gentlemen, contractors it looked like, probably about 8 of them.   The nurse opened the door and called out "Jose?"  Five of the…

I have stumbled across the beautifully written blogs of a couple of mothers who lost their babies.  It’s inevitable in the linked up world of blogging – at the moment, mommy blogs are resonating with me in a way they never have before, so they are where I tend to be drawn.  Other mothers are…