How I Parent

ecards funny dysfunction

Reading this in email and can’t see the image? Click over to the post! I know… it’s a funny card. But the truth is, I think life might be easier on my kids if they leave my house without an inordinate amount of dysfunction. Two already escaped, sadly, not unscathed. But at least I learned [...]

Committing to Crazy

All around, I see people doing amazing things. Because I love a good story, I like to find out what that person’s path was to getting there. I’m always impressed by how those people listened to their inner voices, ignoring well-meaning friends and quizical looks from strangers, moving on with their ideas, no matter how [...]

Funny Math

chalkboardMath

My son was working in a group on word problems with his teacher at school the other day. One section was on ones, tens, and hundreds in every day situations. The question was: Is your grandfather: 5, 50, or 500? After a quick second of confusion, my son blurted out: “Mrs. Smith… my DAD’s 50!” [...]

Om: The Sound of Writing

OmmWriter Screen Shot

Hindus believe that as creation began, the divine, all-encompassing consciousness took the form of the first and original vibration manifesting as sound “OM”. When my creating begins, I just feel the all-encompassing feeling of nausea. Writing can be a daunting task. Not only are you creating something from nothing, you might then take this collection [...]

Top Three Takeaways from the Blackout

Mama Needs a Microchip

Okay… I’m hitting a wall. It’s the wall I’ve heard of before. The wall that is splashed with graffiti (not the really cool mural type graffiti, but just that uninspired tagging type graffiti with block letters in black marker) that says, “You can’t have it all!” When I start to feel sorry for myself for [...]

Bad Plug-Ins and Getting Hacked

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Over the weekend, I attempted to update some plug-ins here on this blog. It did not go well. Whenever I go to click update, I do so with a healthy dose of trepidation. I place my cursor over the update button, lean away from the computer, close my eyes, slightly open one eye back up, [...]

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