writer, blogger, crafty woman
I think I’ve survived my driving tour of the American Southeast. Not certain yet; I still have a small headache and my lower back may never be the same. Plus there’s a new ridge on my forehead from miles of grumpy squinting that may be permanent. I gained five pounds from car food (aka […]
Big road trip coming up for the Fitzpatricks. I’m driving to south Florida, armed with two teen-agers, a $60 tank of gas, a family sized box of Cheez-its and five books on tape. Mapquest tells me it’s 974.32 miles. My high school math tells me it’ll take me about 15 hours. My husband tells […]
I was doing pretty well being New Diane, especially selling our house this time around. But today Old Diane came back for a surprise visit. She didn’t bring any luggage, so she didn’t stay long, but for a little while today, there she was, in my car eating pudding with her hands, smelling like […]
My husband and I love to have people over to our house. I always thought we were pretty complementary to each other. (And complimentary, but that’s another story.) I serve appetizers, he pours wine. I make dinner, he pours more wine. I serve dinner, he pours wine. I clean up the kitchen, he goes […]
This Starbucks obsession is getting out of hand. This morning my daughter and I made a quick pass into Starbucks before I took her to school. I had the entire medium (yes, I said medium – we’ll get to that later) skim latte gulped down before I even realized where I was. When Hillary […]
I’m telling you, if I have to see Brett Favre cry on TV one more time, I’m going to have a minor breakdown. That’s got to be the saddest, most heart-wrenching thing since The Crying Indian on the Keep America Beautiful commercial. In all the time last week that I spent in airports, there […]