Actually, it wasn’t that steamy, but 70 degrees and sunny in the middle of February was a gift to delight the heart of this North Idaho girl. My sister and I took daily walks in the sunshine, and I could almost feel my body ramping up its vitamin D production. I got to enjoy loving … Continue reading »
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I feel like a character in a scifi horror movie. Namely, the one who comes back from a routine jaunt on the surface of an alien planet feeling fine and dandy, only to realize hours later that she has been somehow mysteriously mutated by alien DNA or impregnated with a terrifying little pod baby. After … Continue reading »
Panic
The first time it happened, I thought I was dying. Paul and I were just relaxing after putting the kids to bed, sitting around and watching a movie together, when I felt my heartbeat stutter. That’s how it started. “What was that?” I wondered. Unarticulated fears and the words “heart attack” flashed frighteningly across my … Continue reading »
I’m So Happy That I Can’t Stop Crying
I hate to cry in front of people. Hate it. Despite that, or maybe because of it, I sure seem to do it a lot. I cry easily. The more determined I am to appear cool, calm, or unaffected, the less successful I am. The more desperately I’m trying to hide the depth of my … Continue reading »
M.M.M.*
As a fairly busy full-time homemaker and stay-at-home mom, I often wondered how women who worked for a paycheck by day and cared for a home and family by night ever found the time to do it all. Now that I am a member of the legion of working mothers, I can finally and definitively … Continue reading »
The Green Police
Given the current political climate, I should probably be confessing this in a darkened studio from behind a clown wig and a pair of dark glasses, using one of those electronic voice modulators to disguise my identity. But here it comes, anyway: Up until very recently, I did not recycle. (*brief pause for collective gasp … Continue reading »
Borrowed Bliss
Of the myriad tiny joys embedded in my day like so many Easter Eggs in the green grass, one of the sweetest occurs in the early evening, when my route home invariably takes me past a little wooden-faced building nestled in the heart of Coeur d’Alene, a place called The Hitching Post. Often, especially in … Continue reading »
Attack of the Robot Roaches
I shaved a few years off of Paul’s life last night. First, let me say that it wasn’t my fault. You see, I have this problem. There’s a communication breakdown between my brain and my body, wherein the little part of my brain whose business it is to crank out dreams sometimes forgets to alert … Continue reading »
Chubby Blood
I had a bit of a nasty surprise this week. On Tuesday, I went to the doctor’s office to have my routine thyroid check done and my prescription renewed. Usually I just have some blood drawn to measure my TSH, but because it’s been a long while since my last total health checkup, the doctor … Continue reading »
Just Breathe
2:40 a.m. Caleb and I are awake and frantic and sealed up in the bathroom while the rest of the family sleeps. As I run the water as hot as it will go in the shower and the sink, he is inhaling billows of steam and fighting hard to breathe in and out through his … Continue reading »
