Cold Weather Survival Tip #11

Just a little word of caution:
If you ever move from Georgia to nothern Idaho, there’s a chance that one day you will drop your car keys deep into the snow and have to fish them out with your bare hand because, being a southern girl, you will forget to bring your gloves, despite the fact [...]

A Moment of Thanks

It’s Thanksgiving Day, and before the tryptophan kicks in, leaving me sprawled and snoring in front of the Broncos game, I thought I’d take a moment to remember what this holiday is all about.
Dressing.
Or maybe you call it stuffing, depending on whether you bake it in a pan (as I do), or indelicately cram it [...]

Good News

I’ve got it all, but I feel so deprivedI go up, I come down and I’m emptier insideTell me what is this thing that I feel like I’m missingAnd why can’t I let go[Chorus]There’s gotta be more to life…Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy meCause the more that I’m…Tripping out thinking there must [...]

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It’s that time again! Time to dig out the ornaments, unearth the endless strings of lights (each with exactly one bad bulb in it), and root through the storage boxes in search of caroling snowmen and handmade stockings! I have, once again, won the Christmas decorating showdown!
It starts every year on the first of November. [...]

The Day After

One Halloween back in the eighties (you know, the eighties–that time period when otherwise normal people wore a sparkly glove on only one hand and the world was separated into two groups: those who could actually solve the Rubik’s Cube and those who just cheated and moved the stickers around) a friend of mine came [...]

Mama Bear

“All female bears defend their cubs. If a female with cubs is surprised at close range or is separated from her cubs, she may attack. An aggressive response is the mother grizzly’s natural defense against danger to her young.” –British Columbia Ministry of Environment
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Oh, how I wanted to be a mama bear, and with one [...]

It’s All in the Presentation

Yesterday I gave Caleb Cheerios, a cereal which, remarkably, he’s never had before. I set it down in front of him and said cheerfully, “Look, Caleb! I got you a new kind of cereal! It’s yummy!”
He took one suspicious look at it, turned up his nose, and said, “No! No new [...]