(Thank you, Scooby Doo Two…) Anyway, thanks everybody for the wonderful suggestions–I’m thinking I’m going to do a website, and thanks to Catie’s excellent ideas, I’m going to put some of my older short stories on it. (And thanks for LIR, who, bless her, sent me an cool idea for setting up my own web-site…. Read More

We went to my grandparents today to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday–it was a nice day, although I felt like quite the slacker–my aunts and uncle handled everything from my mother’s transportation to Olive Garden take-out on their porch. All I had to do was show up and let the kids be cute–wow, that was a… Read More

Julie I need to keep my cat away from the computer–the fuckers are conspiring against us. Roxie managed to write perfectly torrid poetry about flowers…I’ll never look at my daffodils again, and a garden is going to make me down-right het up. And although Rae’s DD probably won for best ‘ism’ (especially because hers got… Read More

How would you like your air quality today? A railroad trestle in our area went up in a spectacular conflagration yesterday–the news footage was truly arresting–it was like a little slice of hell had opened up in an inter-dimensional rift and we could see into the heart of chaos. The result this morning was that… Read More

The picture is for the hell of it. She really is adorable, and I had to share. Mate is working late tonight after a softball game last night and crap-all I don’t remember during the weekend and… And I miss my Mate. For those of you reading BOUND, I am much like Cory when Green… Read More

So the Cave Troll went down for a nap yesterday–on accident, on me, while watching television at 4:00pm in the afternoon. He woke up (after sleeping in the chaos that is our living room with 3 other children bopping around and the dog and the cat and a guest and mom bitching at people to… Read More

Okay, first of all, I just downloaded a bunch of pictures from my camera, including a bunch that I’m not going to post because they’re my students, and it’s one thing to humiliate your own offspring on the net, but these guys aren’t obligated by blood. I had the camera in my bag from T’s… Read More

I have an aid in my 2nd period class who often brings her crocheting with her if we’re doing seat work. I showed her how to do edgings at the beginning of the year, and she’s really been taking off with it–I told her that today, and she laughed… “Yeah…it was like learning a different… Read More

Happy allergy day–some people may know it as spring, but here in Nor Cal, people who have never had an allergy before in their lives have been known to get off a plane from Bus-Stop Metropolis and blow up like a poisoned toad with countless allergies that swell the eyes and stuff the head and… Read More

As I sat here, typing away, Big T lumbered in wearing his Spiderman pajama bottoms and a stained polo shirt. “What’s Cave Troll doing?” I ask distractedly. Plod plod plod to the bedroom, plod plod plod back. “Watching tv in your room.” “How is he?” Plod plod plod to the bedroom, plod plod plod back…. Read More