So I got a text last night from Big T: Mom, where’s Steve? I don’t know. She’s a cat and we’re 100 miles away. I haven’t seen her all day. She was in the bathroom this morning. We communed. I looked. She wasn’t in there. I spend a moment of horror to think of T… Read More

About five minutes ago, I stood up and stretched. The dogs, seeing that my nightly work time is nearing its end, haul ass out the barely open back door, bark at the cat, and chase her back inside. She comes inside with a wounded dignity, and they prance in after her, proud that they have… Read More

I wrote a post on FB about how much Mate–and good parents in general, and people trying to be parents–mean to the world, and about how much good they do. We tried to tell Mate today how much he meant to us, in ways both great and small. These ways included– * Letting him pick… Read More

The following things may or may not have happened during recital and rehearsal during the last two days… *  I may have possibly gotten lost going to a place I’ve been a zillion times because I followed my phone for a freeway interchange instead of my own damned common sense. *  It is possibly that,… Read More

So this morning, I got a text from my stepmom. My cousin’s wife, who is a few years younger than me–but not much–just had a baby. They’d tried for a lot of years, and so the baby is sort of a miracle, and it looks a lot like my late uncle. I called my cousin,… Read More

Okay–this is the true story of my first actual moment of political awareness. FTR, I was an idiot. Way way back, before dirt, dust, and dinosaurs, Rush Limbaugh was a small time radio talk show host in California, and he did a tour of California colleges including my teeny tiny junior college, Sierra Community. One… Read More

 For the record? I’ve declared Squish the winner in the soul collection race, although her biggest brother may be hiding many of his freckles under his gigantic lumberjack beard, the better to sucker us into believing he is entirely benign. That being said– I managed almost a mile today, and my knee was… well, not… Read More

Recital season is in full swing, and I find that continuing life as I know it, per usual, makes me a horrible person.  On Friday I tried to work out and then go to the full night show, and I was, if I say so, a face-ripping cow by the end of the night. Today,… Read More

It was the oddest day. My kids had a birthday party to go to–and a really fun one at that! My friend Berry Jello had a reptile petting zoo come to her son’s birthday party, and the kids had SO much fun. So did I for that matter– the lizards, the bugs, the frogs, the… Read More

I forget how much mom-ming I do in the summer. Today– thought I had all the time in the world when I woke up. Just a couple of errands in the morning, followed by a walk, then, maybe some laundry, and possibly some grocery shopping and… And talking to my kids. All four of them…. Read More