I’m throwing this wonder out there for all of us, whether we are just barely meeting our basic needs or whether we were doing great and now we’re just doing ok. Whether we had $100,000 in our 401k that turned into $50,000 overnight, or we had $10,000 that is now $5,000, or we had no…
One Sentence Story – Sunny Days
She wakes up to his smiles ever day, a deep grin he leans his whole body into, and is continually bewildered that she and her husband produced such a delightfully sunny little boy: bewildered, and deeply grateful! A One Sentence Exclamation! While the sunny son babbles happily in his crib. Seriously, why do I…
Thrifty
In a fit of thrift, I have whipped up two ice cube trays worth of frozen baby food. Squash, carrots, bananas. Ice cube trays are a convenient way to freeze it – then pop the cubes into freezer bags, and select one or two per meal! Voila! I feel so . . . so…
Schmeconomic Schmownturn
Dear baby – Mommy and daddy are a little stressed out just at the mo. If this economic “crisis” bidness had happened 8 months from now, a year from now, it wouldn’t be so critical for us. But, financially speaking 2008 has been a big old pain in the butt for our family, so it…
The Comedy, the Tragedy
Once I wrote an opera. It was the mid 1990s, in California. I was 16. I was heavily involved in my high school theatre program – and the band – doubly talented, or doubly geekified, you be the judge. I was a junior, and as part of an upper level drama course, my classmates…