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All indications from the universe lean toward telling me that I must be patient. I have had two weeks of servers crashing, appointments go...

It is still early in the year yet, and folks are still kind of riled up about resolutions, and achieving things, and highfalutin’ aspir...

Image credit:  Catatonique, Wikimedia Commons . MANHATTAN BEACH, CA IN THE MIDDLE OF A CALIFORNIA WINTER.   I realized suddenly over the ...

Well, hello and Happy Twenty-Fourteen! I hope your holidays were spectacular. Over here in Blah Blah Land, we were felled by nasty colds t...

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! Wishing you and yours all the joy of the season, for real. Peace!

If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can...

On this last day of NaBloPoMo, I just want to say: whew! I did it! The hair wars in my family continued over Thanksgiving. I don't under...

I was proud of myself for writing a post ahead of Thanksgiving and for figuring out how to schedule it to post itself on Thanksgiving Day. I...

I called my mom to wish her a Happy Thanksgiving. I called both the landline and her cell number. In both cases I got a message that the num...

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. - Kevin James Wishing you all a day of elastic or drawstring waistlines. Wishing...

(This year in 5th grade, Viva completed an entire unit on the "amazing body machine," including doing a PowerPoint presentation on...

Today kicked my butt. I got nothing for ya, NaBloPoMo.   Trying to upload a video of Ceeya for your enjoyment, but technology is rathe...

Yeeps! For those who celebrate Christmas:  it is exactly ONE MONTH away. Aiiiiii! Why do I feel like it has gotten away from me already? W...

Beautiful clear day, perfect for climbing sand dunes at the beach. I love days like these. The ocean was smooth as glass, and brilliantly bl...

It's Saturday evening. I have deep conditioned Viva's hair and I am about to start the detangling process. From there I hope to sect...

The weather here in La La Land has turned overcast and drizzly and cool. It is exactly the kind of weather that makes me want to curl up w...

I was just checking my blog feeds, which includes my own since I want to be able to view my posts as others see them so as to fix formatting...

Big sigh. This hair issue has gone from bad to worse. My sister-in-law wanted to make Viva an appointment to get her hair done this Satur...

I am at a seminar today for work. I arrived early because I was paranoid about traffic and I was rewarded with a nearly empty parking lot, a...

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have eno...