Mama Blah Blah

A close member of our extended family is in the midst of a scary health issue which, at their request, we have been keeping hush-hush. All o...

What a week. How to sum up? Well:   let’s go back to 2 nd grade, when Viva first started at the school she currently attends. ...

The job that I currently have, and which I have had for two years now (!!), has been challenging in a number of ways I could not have antici...

Sweet Dub has been away from home two nights, dealing with some family issues. I do not sleep well when he is gone. I jolt awake sporadicall...

So many things to say, so many things I can't share. It's a dilemma. So here are some random things. Can I be boring and tell yo...

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...