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At the beginning of the year, I decided that for 2014 I was going to plan a little monthly LA adventure for the Blah Blah Family. We would g...

(Putting on my Andy Rooney voice for a moment:)  Have you ever noticed that when you are running low on funds, the universe bombards you wit...

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Have you ever used a day book? Or read one? Day books are simple journals that are used to record daily events as they occur -- back in...

Image Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Chapter Two In which we discuss how to get there from here. Yesterday, I had lunch...

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons, Yo shi. Today is Friday! I think I am supposed to be writing something about Los Ange...

Recently, the Blah Blah family undertook a little creative adventure. I am looking for new things for us to do these days--things to give my...

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...