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This is Why Everyone Calls You Failed Head
Girl child hands me empty juice cup. Me: “Can you take this to the kitchen, please?” Girl child: “You take it. I’m not your servant.” Me: “What??!!!” (Feeling like some guy is about to jump out from behind my couch with a camera and yell “You’ve been punked!”) Me: “But this is YOUR cup!” Girl…
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Watching My Battery Drain: Microblog Monday
Picture this: It’s my day off. My car’s check engine light has been on eternally and it is in the shop, being diagnosed. I am armed with my laptop and a coffee, ready to jump back into writing after months away. I could write enough to fill a book. And I forgot my power cord.…
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Thankful Thursday: A Microblog
It is 1:00 pm and I find myself ridiculously happy, waiting to go pick up my son for his orthodontist appointment. The stress surrounding my son and his school and my dying dog has briefly relocated to my back burner. Before noon today, I had discovered the following: Upon Googling “Is popcorn fattening?” I learned…
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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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