So last week at soccer, there was an accident with the supply wagon when Mate was manning the snackbar, and we had a little of this: Now don’t get too upset, folks– she’s fine.  She had a black eye and a scrape across the chest, but all in all, I was looking forward to the… Read More

It was Zoomboy’s birthday yesterday.  We did many things. We brought cookies to school and then brought home empty boxes afterwards. We went to three different places to find him a fish (which sucked, because I thought ALL places had fish and apparently there was a fish SHORTAGE at the one place where we go… Read More

The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters.  Okay, back last December, I released a cute little novella about an alpaca rancher named Rance Crawford, and his sudden infatuation with his new neighbor, Ben.  I was rather proud of that sweet little story, and everyone was taken by not only Rance and Ben, but by the secondary… Read More

Okay… the last two days… where to begin, where to begin, where to begin… Let’s start in a school bathroom. Wait, no. Let’s start before that. Let’s start Thursday morning, as I was running around, tripping over laundry, thinking about laundry that needed to be done, looking at the giant pile next to my bed… Read More

Can I have my television back?  Please? I mean, I’m awfully glad that my guys won and all (right down to our local representatives, which was sort of cool because THAT election came down to 200 votes.  It was like, “Hooray!  My vote really DID count!”) But seriously– me and politics, not so much of… Read More

Is it the mustache making him talk so much? *  Imagine a large woman, stomach distended, sprawled on the couch and burping delicately while she’s looking at a giant empty bowl of Halloween candy, saying, “Well, THAT happened.” Yeah.  That’s me.  My stomach will never be the same. *  Voting on propositions in California often… Read More

We have a black widow living in a bolt hole by our garage stairs.  Everyone knows about her, she just hangs out and picks low-hanging flies.  I’m not squeamish about killing her, but the thing is, whenever one of the kids sees her, they scream and tell me, “Mom!  There’s a spider here!”  And then… Read More

Well, THAT happened. Seriously– About five years ago I bought a bunch of bookmarks and thought, “Oh joy!  I have swag!” and offered them up to the world.  For about three years, I got a request for those bookmarks maybe once a week.  It was fun.  I signed them, I sent them, I thought, “Hey!… Read More

Okay– for the record, I’m going to cross post this one on both the website and the blog, because if it’s on the website, it will be around for a while. Anyway– When I ordered swag for GRL, I ordered a LOT of it, because I didn’t want to have to order ANY MORE for… Read More

It’s inevitable, isn’t it? After what amounted to eleven days of travel (and I counted the two days I spent at home in the middle, packing and doing laundry and getting ready to leave again) the first day back would be a zombie day. I napped, I edited, I picked the kids up from school,… Read More