• Backhand

    I suppose someday I will no longer be young, and no one will say to me anymore that I do something well, especially "for your age," and then maybe I’ll miss hearing it.

  • Sing it, Dolly Parton

    It was a frantic day, a day of a mad dash towards first-payroll-of-the-new-year deadline, and I had little time for breaks or lunch or even mooing.  I had to make approximately fifty thousand…

  • What Is Happiness?

    So I’m driving the kid home from the babysitter today – I drive about 20 minutes to pick him up and another 45 or so from there to get home.  He always sleeps…

  • Christmas and Sundry

    Jack Jack Jack! Christmas with you was just wonderful. You magicked up the whole experience for us. I’ll never forget dad and I holding you in a group hug, rocking back and forth…

  • Yearbook

    1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?Motherhood and all its appurtenances.  Next year for this answer I can say that I used the word appurtenance in a sentence, though…