• I Wonder What To Do . . .

    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…

  • 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:…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…