What happened to the paperless world I’m supposed to be living in? I’ve been through hell and back breaking my addiction to paper lists and day planners. I stopped making print-outs of all my emails, I have many of my bills auto-paid, and I’ve saved at least 14 rainforest trees just by online banking. So […]
Tan-tastic
When I was writing a few weeks ago about Phoenix and how hot it is there, one of my blriends (that’s blog friend for those who are still living in 2008) said she lives in the Middle East (and I don’t mean Maryland – I mean the real Middle East, as in burkhas and […]
Counting Kids
I’m counting kids and I keep coming up with the same number. Wait, let me count again, just to double check the math. One . . . Yep, one kid in this house. How did that happen? For starters, I’m a Mother of Three Kids. It’s one of my skills. I’m good at it, […]
But It’s a Dry Heat
I am officially Out West right now, having arrived in Phoenix 22 hours ago (I think. This time zone difference, the fact that Phoenix doesn’t participate in daylight savings time and I have to stop and think what season it is before I can do the subtraction, and the way every time I think […]
When I Said ‘Say Cheese’ I Didn’t Mean Limburger
I just went through the trauma of sending my first-born son off to live on the other side of the planet. He is moving to Changchun, China, which, if you dug a hole in my back yard and went straight down, you’d resurface about two blocks from where he’ll be working. You would be […]
Animal House
We went to two zoo-type places within the past two weeks, which to me is like regressing to my past life, the one where I had little kids and I thought that in order for them to grow up to be employed and marriage material, I had to take them places. Places with a […]