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If you were a fly on the wall, yesterday evening you would have seen Sweet Dub embrace me in the kitchen, after which the following exchange...

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. - Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985 I think I need a haircut...

There was this commercial several years ago in which a bunch of people are sitting around in a conference room and one guy is all gung-ho an...

Blog neglect, n. That state of inactivity on one’s blog that makes all regular readers forget that one ever even had a blog. Also, the relat...

Yesterday Sweet Dub and I met for lunch and inadvertently celebrated an anniversary: it’s been a month already since he got laid off. I know...

It is never simple here. Everybody has an opinion. A brief piece which is time sensitive is held up. Repeatedly. Because so-and-so has to re...

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! - Richard Bach When I first rea...

Just a quickie: Catching up on my blog feed reading, and I came across this little gem which had me nodding my head. In it, Leo Babauta of Z...

Well! I just dropped a bomb on you and then skedaddled away, even though so many of you so kindly took the time to comment and commiserate. ...

Sweet Dub just called me. He got laid off today. Holy freakin' crap.

It was a Tuesday morning. Sweet Dub was working horrific hours at his job. When he left for work at 6 AM, he asked if I was okay. My hips ha...

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. - Leo Burke I was reading about sleep deprivation last night. And although...

At our last pediatrician visit a couple of weeks ago, we discovered that Miss Celie had a “raging” ear infection (the doctor’s words, not mi...

In direct contrast to the last couple of posts, today’s post is a bit fluffier. Think cotton candy. Sprinkled with just a light dusting of e...

On Monday, a hospice liaison came to visit my Nanna. In light of the spread of her cancer, they discussed the options: radiation, chemothera...

I keep starting posts and deleting them today. When I re-read them, I feel they are hardly worth the effort of reading. So I delete. And the...

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. -Confucius I have a family member who insists on making huge grand life decis...

“Something’s gotta give,” we (as in Sweet Dub and I) keep telling each other. And yet it doesn’t. We are stretched kind of thin these days....

Wow, so here I am, off to a raging start with this blogging thing in 2010. It’s February already and I’ve posted only 3 times this year. Thr...

Okay. So in reading here and there about my work life you may have surmised that I work in the nonprofit sector, and I do my best to raise m...