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Good fillings: whipped cream, chocolate ganache, buttercream. Bad fillings: teeth, potholes, deep puncture wounds. Barely tolerable fillings: this post. Reread yesterday and you’ll see why.

For six months my calendar is pure white and I practically die from ennui. Then six months worth of activities are pushed into six days. Good times, good times. Today A and I are attending the InHome Conference. My first …

It is unseasonably warm in Chicago this week. I almost wrote “unreasonably” warm, but when it’s 80 in mid-March, you do not look a gift horse in the mouth! You fall to your knees in gratitude, blow kisses at the sun, …

It is a holiday here in the House of Chaos. And if you’re a geek or raising geeklings, you know what it is. Pi day. The day we celebrate all things 3.14159etc. That’s as far as my memory can reliably …

It’s great to learn ‘Cause knowledge is power! If you’re a child of the early ‘80s, you’re familiar with that cute little ditty. Oh, Schoolhouse Rock, how I love thee. I can count by threes, recite the Preamble, and I …

Have ya heard? Today Mercury is in retrograde! (Interpretation: things are gonna be screwy for the next three weeks. You’ve been warned.) I never put much stock in the whole Mercury is in retrograde the world is going to ennnnnd!!! thing…until …

I should have known better. Classic rookie mom mistake. Shoulda just kept my mouth shut. See, A is going to Boy Scout camp this summer for the first time. Overnight camp. For a week. No parents. He has never gone …

Chicago did not have winter. There. I said it. Two annoy-the-hell-outta-me snowfalls is NOT a Chicago winter. Five months of dear sweet God have mercy please make the subzero temperatures end! is a Chicago winter. While it’s not yet spring …

When you’ve made big changes in your life, did you ever stop to think why? What finally tipped it from status quo to change? What did it? Something you heard, a belief challenged, heated words sent your way in anger? …

Today’s writing prompt from NaBloPoMo was Would you rather have invisibility or the ability to fly?  Well, once upon a time in a college psychology class I chose invisibility, but not for the reasons others did. Thankfully our written responses, which …