Yearly Archives: 2011

First of all, I hope you had a great Christmas. I know I did. Because I got my very first Kindle! And a super-soft North Face jacket! And a pair…

It’s December 22.I keep telling myself to inhale. Exhale. Inhale. And try not to choke on this annoying gnat that keeps buzzing by my recliner while I type this.Aren’t gnats…

I saw the movie New Year’s Eve this weekend, and all I can say about this is that I am currently working on a bucket list, and if any of…

So earlier today, my almost sixteen-year-old son said this: “Hey Mom, can I YouTube the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show? Because I heard Maroon 5 was awesome on it and I…

My weekend was crazy-busy, what with all the sitting and the napping and the eating and the lounging and the baking and the eating…. Seriously, I’m exhausted just typing this.…

It really is the most wonderful time of the year. The sights of twinkling lights as they shine throughout my neighborhood. The scent of winter in the chilly air. The…

I’m not a teacher, but I play one on television—er, I mean…I play one a couple times a week. In the form of substitute teaching. Which—when surrounded by twenty-plus kids…

Does this title remind anyone else of a Whatchmacallit? Or make anyone want a candy bar, like me?Maybe not.So today has been weird. Not weird in the Inception or Limitless…

Yeah, yeah, Thanksgiving was three days ago, but “better late than never” is a mantra I live by. Like, literally, because I am always…late. For everything.So, in honor of Thanksgiving,…

Somewhere out there in the confusing universe otherwise known as MY LIFE, there is a conspiracy brewing. One in which little elves are floating above my head, whispering excitedly as…