Category Archives: Home is Where the Weirdness Lives
Captain Underpants
As I type, I’m envisioning the disjointed discussion likely taking place in my brood’s fifth-grade classroom right about now, spawned, of course, by the events surrounding Saturday’s cleaning fest at our home. Like most frenzied attempts to rid my world … Continue reading
2012: The Year of the Dragon
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the year of the dragon. I know this to be true not only because I googled the bejesus out of it, but because my brood became riddled with delirium upon learning they had … Continue reading
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Creatures of Habit
I have a favorite pair of sweatpants that I’ve owned since the Precambrian period. They’re a tired shade of gray, with barely a suggestion of the navy lettering that once graced its cottony surface. American Eagle, I think. Of course, … Continue reading
Ode to Oblivion
I envy my dog at times. I suppose it’s because he seems perpetually happy—aside from the instances during which his neurotic little soul is seized by that which triggers a barking frenzy (i.e. when he encounters joggers with or without … Continue reading
Welcome to My Dysfunctional World
I have a confession to make. I suffer from a completely debilitating and utterly incurable fixation—with my kitchen counters. More specifically, with keeping them clean day and night. Maybe it stems from my well documented germ phobia, perhaps from my … Continue reading
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January: A Fine Time for Resolving to Do Something about Those…Um, Flaws
Jettison. If I accomplish but one thing in the coming year, I pray to God that it involves discarding that which I no longer need, want or will ever use. Otherwise my humble abode will be featured on A&E’s Hoarders … Continue reading
The Week before Christmas
An oldie, but a goodie… ‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the land Not a shopper was idle, the stores were all jammed. The carts were all taken, the traffic—a bear, We hoped that a parking place still … Continue reading
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Countdown to Ho-Hum: Ringing in the New Year
Here’s hoping my New Year’s Eve won’t be frighteningly similar to that of 2008 (i.e. described below in horrific detail). Oh well…such is parenthood. Romantically speaking, I lead an extraordinarily dull life. At no time does this particular truth become … Continue reading
