So. We have had great weather here in the PNW this past week. Perfect timing for, say, the Swim for Life – a 2.5 mile swim across Lake Washington. The funds raised (at last count $43,000) will go to the Bone Marrow Registry! When I went to bed Tuesday night, it was hot. It was [...]

However good or not good it may be (depends on who you talk to)… I spent a good deal of time in the onlinez. My life is richer, fuller… meaningful-ier as a direct result of the online relationships I have had the privilege to play a part in building. The thing is… it is surprisingly [...]

I confess. It is August and I still have Christmas decorations up. However unintentional. Last year, when I was decorating for Christmas, I found a Christmas pillow – THAT WAS OUT ALL YEAR. The other day I was doing a hardcore cleaning because I was hosting a baby shower. This time I found a snowman [...]

I was going to start a little weekly series today — something like “Foodie Friday” in an effort to… to… Oh, I don’t know. I am just thinking it’s time to write more about cooking. Food. Recipes. And whathaveyou. Honestly, I was inspired to do more with food and cooking by this event. But then [...]

If you took the time to search the early years of this blog, you would find many posts documenting the struggles, the humiliations, the exhaustion, the exhaustion, the desperation, and token precious moments this mom has had woven into the fabric of her motherhood journey. My earliest posts were heavy. It was a dark time. [...]

Since that kind-of sounds like the title of a children’s book… let’s just go with it, ehh?! There once was a woman who lived in a shoe grown woman who went to the Big Apple. Except THIS Big Apple was not round, red and crispy. THIS Red Apple was big and smelled like street, pee, [...]