It started with the irritation–which was actually unfounded on my part, but it looked good in the title. I was dropping off books at The Almost Perfect Bookstore (one of a couple of places you can find me in the wild) and I mentioned to Kelley that there was a discussion going on amazon.com in… Read More

There’s this song by Bowling for Soup called ‘Almost’–some of the lines are pretty great: I almost got drunk at school at thirteenAnd I almost got lucky with the homecoming queenWho almost went off to be Miss TexasBut she lost with a slut with much bigger breast-asAnd I al-most had you… But we’ll get back… Read More

When the teenagers were very young, for about a year and a half, we lived on my husband’s grandmother’s property. There were all sorts of sucky things about the arrangement, and one of them was the house itself–only 1/4 of it sat on a foundation–if you dropped a baby bottle on one side, you’d find… Read More

The incomparable Eddie Izzard did this bit where he was talking about serial killers, and how we don’t know what to do with them. We tend to put them on house arrest, which works for the rest of the world, “Just stay out of that fucking house, right?” I was driving home from work yesterday… Read More

I am working on the ugliest pair of legwarmers known to man. Just the word, ‘leg warmers’ unless I’m talking about the exquisite laceweight ones in the last issue of Interweave Knits should make you shudder, but these are for a student,and she asked for something real bright, so in an effort to ease the… Read More

Seriously–I’m not sure if it’s because I’m tired or because my funny star alignment is in it’s nadir, but I’m thinking I might even bore myself today. (But that’s not going to stop me from inflicting my boredom on the Universe–sometimes I’m not a very nice person.) Anyway, my 2nd period is working on a… Read More

I snarfed this one from Donna Lee–I’m such a sucker for stuff like this!!! You Are An INFP The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to… Read More

I’m watching my kids take their STAR tests with such an incredibly mixed set of feelings that it’s hard to even sort them out of the bag, and I think I’ll spend this post actually trying. (Pause, while I make a kid take his earphones out of his ears. Realize that I don’t object to… Read More

My last post got me thinking–I had a whole 13 years of parenting under my belt before I started blogging, and you guys missed some real humdingers in terms of me screwing the pooch (and the psyche) as an estrogen bearing progenitor of the species. I thought I’d go back and give you all some… Read More

No no…I’m not qualified to lecture on going green or organic, this is something entirely different. For the last week or so, in the mornings as we’ve left, the Cave Troll has gone to the bed with the rose-bushes in it and written a soap opera about snails. “See mom…that snail is sleeping, and that… Read More