Carving a Memory

It’s been a few years since we actually carved a pumpkin, so Katie may be excused for forgetting that this exciting family bonding type activity that she’s been feverishly anticipating for the past month also has its grubby, disgusting down side. (Actual quote: “Ewwww! I am not touching the pumpkin poo!”)
Last year, in deference to [...]

Alex P. Keaton, Where Are You?

*WARNING* Politically charged waters ahead. Swim at your own risk.
If you haven’t heard about the recent brouhaha regarding Rush Limbaugh and actor Michael J. Fox, you haven’t been watching the news. Many are calling Limbaugh insensitive (and much worse) after comments he made accusing the actor of exploiting his Parkinson’s disease in a series of [...]

It’s a Mystery

I may be blonde and act like an airhead, but inside I am a seething cauldron of frenzied cogitation and intellectual reasoning, and I know what you’re all thinking. Yes, it’s true that Peter and I didn’t always get along, but the same could be said for almost anyone at camp. He’s an interfering old [...]

Show and Tell

This morning, I single-handedly saved Friday. At least according to the look in my daughter’s eyes when I dropped her off at school just before the morning bell.
It was very nearly the third Friday in a row in which she forgot to bring something in for show-and-tell. In case you don’t know, show-and-tell is a [...]

That New Book Smell

They say that smell plays a bigger part than we know in triggering memory. I believe it, because even now, decades later, the smell of brand new books takes me right back to elementary school, and the much-anticipated, twice yearly ritual of shopping at the Scholastic Book Fair. It was easily the highlight of my [...]

Musical Interlude

I love reading a blog and coming across other people’s music recommendations. Ever since I discovered the joys of iTunes and 99 cent music downloads, my music collection has blossomed, fed by a steady stream of new songs discovered everywhere from Diet Coke commercials to my sister’s mix CDs.
In the same spirit of sharing, here’s [...]

Open My Eyes

I just didn’t see her.
I think that, more than anything, is what’s been eating at me these past few weeks. Why else would the same forty-five seconds keep coming back to me in quiet moments when my brain is on slow idle, replaying itself in my head long after its own summer Saturday has passed?
I [...]

Homage to Geekdom

It’s well known that I have a soft spot for geeks.
In the ten years since I married into their fold, the secret society of tech-heads has opened to me, the original PEBKAC error, the doors leading to its mystical underbelly, with a few members even teaching me some of their acronym-riddled language and inviting me [...]