I haven’t done one of these in for-EV-uh…. but it’s Friday afternoon and my brain is kinda fried for the day:
Kathryn posts this:
This Friday Five will post while I’m at the beach which for me is more than a vacation destination, it is a trip home. I have found it quite easy to wax nostalgic […]

Sitting on the couch with M, who is home sick and tired with a fever.
As for me, I’m just sick and tired… [lame attempt at humor]
I used to blog about, and think about, things other than kid illnesses. Wow, that was nice.
Though it may be torturous to do so, I’ve decided to keep track […]

from most recent to least:
C, after she found me in a totally different room than she thought I’d be: “Wow Mommy, that was like a Jack-Jack maneuver.”
Date last night, followed by an overnight in DC courtesy of Priceline while kids had MaDear sleepover. Potluck here tonight with the PNC that called me one year ago […]

I try to think about Glenn Beck as little as possible, but I have been pondering his recent comments on social justice. This article responds as well as I could ever hope to, but there’s something else I’ve been kicking around, a logical fallacy that seems very revealing to me. I know, I know, logic […]

It’s funny to read back over last Sunday’s update.
1. “Back to normal!” Not so much. J was sick all week with a very high fever—we even took him to the ER Thursday night because the meds weren’t bringing it down much anymore and we were in day five of this and our oncall ped […]

1. I’ve been very quiet here this week because our daycare provider was on vacation, so I was doing some major juggling. Over the last week we’ve had lots of pool time, went to a state park, saw a puppet show yesterday, and watched a lot of movies while I’ve tried to work.
2. I actually […]

“The weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow, a chance of continued crappy with a pissy weather front coming down from the north. Basically, it’s hotter than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut.” –Good Morning Vietnam
Quite the abrupt shift from last week’s idyllic setting. […]

Below is a Reverendmother Encore Presentation, a post I wrote four years ago that recounted some memories of the PCUSA General Assembly. I have one more to add from last night—watching (and tweeting) as Cindy Bolbach, an elder from right here in National Crankypants, was elected. I did a little bit for her ‘team’ and […]

Is this a sunrise or a sunset? Hard to tell, which is fitting—the week is coming to a close, but a new chapter is beginning in my writing as well.
I leave tomorrow for home after an incredible week. I can’t say the week flew by. It didn’t drag either; instead the time felt saturated with […]

I heard a new term this week, “guinea pig non-fiction,” which is the Julie and Julia/Year of Living Biblically/Happiness Project genre in which people undertake an experiment and then write about it.
So, tomorrow is my half birthday (don’t ask me why I remembered that) which means that in exactly 18 months I will be the […]