• October

    11 years ago this month, I met my husband.  (On that day, my friend’s first and only nephew was born – happy birthday Kevin!)  We were at his parents’ home in South Carolina. …

  • Saturday Morning Meal Planning

    There’s a bit of a chill in the air, which means one thing around this house: soup-making time!  The baby is tooling around on the floor drooling on things, I’m googling Skylanders Swap…

  • Breaking the Writer’s Block

    “You look tired” said the YMCA employee to me, as she passed me on her way up and down the locker room aisles with a broom and dustpan.  I am running a comb…

  • BIZZY

    I have literally three minutes here, so I default to my norm: cute kid stories.  So boring 4U, so interesting 2ME! Liam moved his (my) ukulele the other day, and said loudly: I…

  • Three Day Weekend

    My birthday tends to fall on Labor Day Weekend every year.  (My younger sister’s lands on Memorial Day weekend -together, our birthdays bookend the summer).  Back in the old school days, I was…