Rift

Call NASA. Better yet, call the United Federation of Planets. After years and years of watching old Star Trek episodes, I have finally stumbled across a real life rift in the space-time continuum!
It’s in my shower.
There’s no other explanation for the odd way in which time folds and stretches when I vanish behind that plastic [...]

Upgrade

We have a new dishwasher!
The stainless steel beauty of its front panel opens to reveal the pristine spaciousness of two deep dish racks, an easily removable silverware caddy, and a self-cleaning filter. (Side note: we could use more “self-cleaning” things around here.) With six different wash settings, spot-free rinse, and a heat dry cycle, [...]

Hissing Fist

Today’s post is brought to you by a guest blogger, my handsome and talented husband, Paul (a.k.a. The Geek.)
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I watched as my daughter stood face-to-face with a karate black belt. He stood poised in his best front stance, she in her best back stance*. It was not a situation I had ever imagined taking in [...]

Downshifting

Well, the daily posts were fun while they lasted, but I’m going to have to take a breather, friends.
I have an acquaintance with a small business who needs some data transcription done, so for the next month or two, I’ve signed on to work a couple of hours a day for him. It’s something I [...]

Lost

Panic.
I can’t find my daughter. I can’t find my daughter! I can’t find my DAUGHTER!
At some point, every parent experiences the horrible, gut-punching terror of looking around for their child only to find that he or she is nowhere to be seen. What might start out as a relatively calm search can quickly escalate into [...]

Upside Down

When I was a little girl, I used to lie upside down on the couch. With my feet propped up on the cushioned back and my head hanging down off of the edge so that my long hair trailed across the carpet, I would gaze around at my surroundings and imagine walking across the [...]

Thoughts on Virginia Tech

another lone shooter
an alien standing in a sea of people,
unnoticed in his normal skin
until he raises the gun
cutting people down like
so much wheat
before turning the gun on himself
and taking our answers with him
what is he killing?
anger?
hurt?
emptiness, that sucking hole that inhales
days and months and years,
leaving nothing in its wake?
who can know now?
could someone so cruel [...]

Thinking? Me?

Many thanks to Shabby In the City for awarding me the much-coveted Thinking Blogger Award: Well, I was coveting it, at least, as I’ve been glimpsing it here and there on many of my favorite blogs, and hoping that someone, somewhere might decide that revelations about slimy fungus and potty training explosions qualify as “thought-provoking.” [...]

Liberty and Restrooms for All

Common wisdom contends that there’s nothing like travel to make you truly appreciate home.I don’t know if that’s true in all respects, but there is one facet of life in the good old USA that I came to adore during my excursions across the pond, a feature of American culture that remains unequaled among the [...]

Mr. Middle Earth, the Reprise

I don’t have time for a long, thoughtful blog post tonight, as my sister has come over and we’re working our way through the Lord of the Rings movies. Again.
For my thoughts on that, you can go to this previous post and weigh in on a very important psychological debate which is still hotly raging. [...]