writer, blogger, crafty woman
Sorry if I seem to go on and on about Christmas. But it’s not as if you can ignore it. Driving into my neighborhood, you’d think you were on your way to Santa’s Land of Gumdrops ‘n Double Mocha Frappaccinos. Even the Liquor Barn and H&R Block are festive. This week we put up […]
Lexington has a lot of nice things. I’m saying that right up front so you won’t think I’m a Yankee snot, or an elitist Hubbard, Ohioan. I love oodles and oodles of things here. Downtown Lexington has a thing – I can’t really put my finger on it – but it has something to do […]
Here we go again. It’s time for the annual Fitzpatrick Family Christmas Card Picture. We’ve been including a photo in our Christmas cards since the year we had a 4-year-old and an 8-week-old with three different forms of eczema, neonatal acne, elephant skin, crossed eyes and bruised lumps on his head from a difficult, […]
I’ve tried to instill some old-fashioned values in this house, I really have. At the risk of appearing Republican, I’ve led Christmas-cookie-baking afternoons, made dozens of gingerbread houses, snuck Bing Crosby onto the iTunes, and basically jumped headfirst into the pile of corn. My kids stood by in their black t-shirts and backward baseball […]
I have a list of things to do if I’m ever going to be the perfect person. Not that I’m close enough to actually have that goal in my sights or anything, but I have a list of six or seven hundred things I’d have to change about myself to be able to say […]
For those of you who go on bus trips with some regularity, this won’t be funny. This will be your life. However, for anyone who has watched with fascination people getting off a big bus, blinking and squinting, dragging a sleeping leg behind them, and wondered what could compel someone to board such a […]