On Chicken’s 17th Birthday we… 1.  Picked up her gifrickinnormous birthday cookie 2.  Dropped her brother off at the Sac Horror Con 3.  Went to a soccer game where her team had no subs 4.  Watched Chicken almost score twice and walk off a sprained ankle– no subs, remember? 5.  Sang happy birthday to her… Read More

Someone told me that bullet points were the best invention of the eighties–I’ll take their word for it, but I do have to admit they come in handy, especially when there is all sorts of random information someone has to share.  To wit: *  Squish has actually PLAYED soccer for her last few practices.  Mostly… Read More

I went to Squish and Zoomboy’s Back To School night tonight–I covered both kids because Mate was doing soccer pictures as Coach.  I spoke briefly to both of Zoomboy’s teachers–I mentioned his open 504, and that if he happens to miss his meds, they’ll know it, but that he very much wants to do well…. Read More

Two wheels, will travel! We were on our way to drop Big T off at my parents on Sunday, when we we saw this weird and ingenious contraption.  Look at that!  It’s a motorcycle with a bicycle rack!  Apparently, if it’s got two wheels, this guy is obsessed!  We thought it was awesome–and let me… Read More

Okay, my friend Marie Sexton who has this whole blog-promotion thing down WAY better than I ever will, has this thing called Saturday Snark, where you post your characters saying something snarky.  I figure my characters have snark to spare, so I thought I’d participate.  Patrick and Whiskey have been making a lot of friends recently, so… Read More

Okay, so I’m in the middle of changing Super Sock Man  from a short story to a novella, and I realized that part of the story hinges upon the idea of being a superhero. Donnie puts on the socks (still under construction, by the way)  and feels like a confident, sexy, superhero, and, well, in the… Read More

So the other morning, Mate’s dad called to update us on his health (a little skeery, but okay for the moment) and Zoomboy came into the kitchen.  Mate’s dad hasn’t seen Zoomboy since… well… four years ago?  Five.  No, it was five.  We’ve got the picture to prove it. Anyway, I asked him if he… Read More

So yesterday was a soccer day– and it was MISERABLE.  Temperature in the 100’ds, humid, air quality for shit–just gross.  So when I got back from taking Chicken to her two ref jobs, I was not surprised to see everybody in shorts going to Zoomboy’s game.  (Chicken had a game in an hour too–we had… Read More

Okay– my friend is on the phone, talking about getting her alpaca fleece sheared and processed, and then finding a spinner to buy it, and seriously– it’s like she’s seducing me with fresh, quality critter fur.  I WANT TO SPIN THAT!  (Okay– not these critters– these critters were found on Bing images, and while charming,… Read More

We spent the long weekend in Monterey. We go there as often as we can.  Something about the lovely, seventy degree climate, the aquarium (which you can see Zoomboy enjoying with oomph!) and the smell of the sea makes the entire family gazunga scads of happy.  Mate, my beloved Mate, who has not really had… Read More