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Bear With Me While I Obsess: School Tours Round 2
You are wondering right now if I’ve quit my job so I can focus full time on obsessing and complaining about my kids’ education. Rest assured, I have not. My son emptied out his desk yesterday and brought home a meager 10 or so sheets of paper from the past few months of school. One…
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Microblog Thursday: An Unsatisfying Break from Alliteration
Today was my afternoon off to pick up my son from school. It was a beautiful day, with temps near 50F and a bright, warm sun. When I picked him up and asked him how he wanted to spend the afternoon, I had a brief fantasy. “Momma, I’d like to find a coffee shop with…
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An Ode to Siri, My Trusted Co-Parent
The other day, I felt like I might have landed on a brilliant invention. An app you can use to have those difficult conversations with your child. Instead of having conversations about drugs, sex, and Donald Trump with your kids, why not just create an app to whom you can delegate that responsibility. I mean, there…
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School Meetings and My Pagan Daughter
The long awaited meeting finally occurred and I hope some forward movement will happen regarding my son’s school situation. I went into the meeting in a state of hyper vigilance. I probably could have felt a speck of dust land on me, but I wasn’t nervous. My son’s teacher had already made cultural and economic…
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Au revoir 2016! Phew!
I’ve been dying to write again! Every day I categorize my experiences, my thoughts, my interactions with the kids, into short stories. It has been so long. Let me start by saying that I AM SO GLAD CHRISTMAS IS OVER! My mood starts a downward spiral shortly after Halloween every year with the anticipation of Thanksgiving…
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Staying “parcours” With My Fitness Goals
It has been several months since I blogged – back when we were in the throes of camping adventures and expenses. Since then, my brain has been cluttered with experiences, organized into clip art-like images and quips as the days fly by. My son loves first grade and his new school. Every day he leaps out…
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That Time When Buying Camping Equipment Forced Me Into Foreclosure
I’m sitting in a Freddy’s restaurant eating a hamburger and drinking liquid poison (Pepsi), after a solid workout where I burned at least 300 calories according to the machine I was on. My nose is red from crying and I am THAT guy. Sitting alone at a table, positioned where I can see all the…
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Chin Hairs, Chronic Pain, Stuffy Noses and Memory Loss, No Problem
I’ve been on this serious regimen of health improvement over the past month, ever since the visit to my doctor. At the prompting of some readers and friends, I opted to give a chiropractor a go. If you have mentioned to me over the past month that I need to try this, nice work, you…
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Annoying the world. One person at a time.
Today I met my neighbor for the third time in three years. I’m not sure why I don’t see her more often. After our brief reunification, I decided that she really needs to move into my head. She came over wanting to see how my security doors were installed. “Now this doesn’t make much sense.…
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40 is NOT the New 20
I’m typing this in the quiet shadows of my living room, afraid to breathe so as not to provoke any questions or commentary from the bedroom. My iPad screen is covered with unidentifiable sticky, smudgey, crispy material that has accumulated over the past couple weeks, left by the yucky, germy little fingers of tiny trolls…