Category Archives: am I doing anything right?

I Wanna Know

Someone recently very kindly pointed out to me that blogs occasionally contain some personal information about the author and their daily lives. This voyeuristic quality apparently makes it fun to quietly watch them go about their business while getting a … Continue reading

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This Is The Speech I Want To Hear Someday

  Like I’ve said before, there are times when doing the emperors bidding wears you down and makes you long for a two week vacation to Tahiti. Il Duce was especially demanding today when his needs were not getting met … Continue reading

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We’re Making Plans For Nigel

  At some point I’m going to get a phone call from various defunct 80′s bands demanding some sort of restitution for all the titles I’ve stolen after a morning listening to Sirius XM’s First Wave. I like to use … Continue reading

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The Horrifying Incident Involving the Boy, His Mouth, a 44 Minute Wait on Line, The Word Vagina and Fifty Scandalized, Hungry Patrons

Hey, remember me? Super freewheeling summertime girl with the wind in her hair, not a care in the world and the family that looked like it jumped off the J. Crew end of summer catalog?  Yeah, well she shriveled up … Continue reading

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Starts With B, Rhymes With Witch

What do you get when one and three go to war? Lot’s of flying fists, hurt feelings and exhausted referees.   Into every new year a little profanity must fall and who better to give it to you than Il Duce? … Continue reading

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I Suspect the Kids Might Actually Be Doing These Things On Purpose

  Sometimes I get the unnerving feeling that my kids are out to get me. Not the usual my kids are sucking the marrow from my bones and I have not one iota of energy or sense of self left … Continue reading

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Things are Not as They Appear.

This Sunday I had myself a true Judas Iscariot moment. I denied knowing my own children at the grocery store. Then I stopped after reading that last line and asked myself  “Hey girl who spent her whole life chained to … Continue reading

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This is you, as seen by me

There are some things we can all agree on regardless of how different we may be. Like the universally understood fact that  no one can raise a barn or make potato salad like the Amish AND no matter how perfect you … Continue reading

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