Okay, so? I am actually sort of embarassed to admit this, but this whole blogosphere-wide DELURK NOW OR COWER IN SHAME peer-pressure effort to bring lurkers out of the woodwork is really kind of...
Edits! Edits! Yonder, below!WonderBaby has, happily, recovered from her pox. A few small red marks here and there, but otherwise back to normal.Funny thing, pox. In archaic usage, the term sometimes referred to misfortune...
This blog is, obviously, a sort of personal diary. But it's a considered sort of personal diary, contrived in the sense of being planned, structured, deliberated upon. It's not a spontaneous, stream-of-conciousness account of...
What Santa brought WonderBaby this year:
Pox. Awesome.
At least he waited until after we had flown across the country and driven four hours into the hinterland of British Columbia to spring it on her. That...
Have A Happy Hasselhoffian Holiday.Her Bad Mother Headquarters will be shuttered for a few days while Her Bad Family journeys west. If you're looking for holiday reading, why not visit the Magi?(Thanks, Jana, for...
The other morning, I was idly scanning the newspaper while supervising Wonderbaby’s breaking of the fast (corn puffs and an orange and waffles spread with apple butter), when I happened upon this headline: Imagine...
In The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry tells the story of Della and James, a cash-poor young couple who, unbeknownst to each other, give up their most prized possessions – she, her lustrous...
We interrupt this week's ongoing tidings of comfort and joy to bring you this moment of yuletide trauma: Does she weep because her mother has abandoned her to the clutches of a fat, bearded...
From my sister, Tanner's mom, after seeing the auction site:Sis,I am blown away… it brings me to my knees in gratitude that this kind of kindness exists - for Tanner's sake. He is one...
