There’s a laugh around here somewhere
I don’t think I have seen the sun in over a week. Winter in Chicago has arrived. Incessant gloom and chill and dark and please tell me the sun is visiting you, wherever you are. My Happy Lamp is on ten …
Today I will DO ALL THE THINGS!
The hardest part of the day is when my brain slowly comes back online in the morning. It’s a slow and laborious process, hindered by the fact that during the boot up process I have to get a kid up and …
‘Tis the week of Thanksgiving and all through the house
…all sorts of things are stirring and not a single one of them are on the stove. We managed to take a crazy time of year and Plus It with business travel and holiday travel and behind the scenes chaos …
{Friday Fragments} Mid-November January Edition
It has been years, years, since I wrote a Friday Fragments post. Just seemed appropriate today, given my current state of mind (holey) and body (exhausted). This weather, this January in November shit weather, is not doing much for my mind, …
Jen’s Unbreakable Rules for Holiday Music
I was in the car with the boys the other day when… Jingle Bells Jingle Bells Jingle All the W…. STOP!!!!! No Christmas music in early November. Just no. And so, like other important discussions that must be had only …
A kinder, gentler NaBloPoMo
I’m mellowing in my middle age. Last week I missed a day of NaBloPoMo and it only irked me a tiny bit. No guilt over it, no writing shame spiral, just oops and done. Today I’m thumb-typing this post between …
{GHF blog hop} To Be Both Normal and Extraordinary
Most Fridays during the school year we’re at our homeschool co-op. It’s a warm (in company, the buildings are freezing, but that’s why I have a down coat), comforting, supportive day for us. It’s the first (and still only) …
Today I played a concert.
A few years ago (ok, a LOT of years ago), I wrote a short piece about playing a concert. Go read that, and pretend I wrote it today. Because today I did play a concert. Not orchestra, which is what I …
If only they were this exhausted every night
NOW HEAR THIS: If you are not a married adult in this abode you need to immediately and without further ado depart from your current location and haul your young ass to the upper regions of this facility. Once there …
At least I’m warm
Back when I was in college I had this massive winter coat. No, really, it was enormous. Cherry red, puffy with down, reached my ankles…and my ankles are pretty far from my shoulders. My friends laughed and called it my …