Mom’s Obstacle Course

Wake up in the morning, ready to go got lots to do, can’t start off  slow. With only twenty-four hours I’m gonna need some super powers!   Race downstairs, laundry in my arms before I even hear the sound of the alarm. Throw the pile of duds in the...

Twitter Speak

This author-teacher-mom has learned lots of gooseful info since leaving the nest with the first tweet almost 3 years ago. Between reading blogs on tweetiquette, following the do’s and don’ts, and using some good ol’ common sense learning eggsactly...

Attack of the Clutter

Stuff–knick knacks, doodads, duplicates, gadgets, equipment, gear, junk–multiplies like rabbits! Before you know it–BAM–you’ve got clutter! One day you look around the casa and think, Yikes! Working and writing have left no time to manage...

Edith Hamilton

This week’s spotlight on Fab Female Friday is a scholar and one of the foremost women Classicists. (That’s one who has studied the Greek/Roman Greats like Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Ovid, and Homer.) (And you think your thoughts are deep?!) Her...

Swimsuit Sorrows

“You got mail from Victoria’s Secret!” I shout to my daughter as I wave a small envelope. She bounds down the stairs and swipes it from my hands. “Oh! It’s my new bikini!” Bikini? I’m holding a small flat envelope in my hands....

5th Amendment–Family Style

Taking the 5th! Pleading the 5th amendment is useful if you’re a politico or scapegoat or tipster sitting in the Hot Seat! While driving to work, I listened as the radio broadcast a government employee invoking the 5th and I thought, “Well, that came in...
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