Freak Parade

Reaching yet another birthday and living to tell the tale has caused me to do some thinking. Pretty much since the age of 18, I have had nothing but contempt for the process of getting older. The weight gain, the wrinkles, the responsibility, the complete un-coolness that comes along with it. Why on earth […]

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Why did I choose this picture for Love Thursday? Scroll on down.

This picture of The Girl is my submission for Love Thursday at Shutter Sisters. I had planned on using a completely different photo. I spent about an hour today trying to get that picture just how I wanted it. I took my […]

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So the closest fire to us is about 15 miles away, but this is what the sun looked like at 4:00 in the afternoon Wednesday. The gray blob? Not clouds. Smoke. But the oppressive, eye burning smell of smoke had faded a bit, and the winds had died down.
We went on a field trip to […]

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So this weekend was our anniversary. Sixty Six years of wedded bliss. We’re not sure whether the fact that we both feel like it has been a whole lot longer is a good thing or not. Around here, anniversaries usually = kid free. Yeah, um…usually. This particular anniversary happened to be quite a bit too […]

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I am so frustrated with myself right now. I can’t seem to get a handle on anything. My house is a disaster…and I don’t just mean the clutter of kids’ toys. No, really. You should see my bathroom. And the laundry. Oh, the piles of laundry. Clean. Not clean. Just piles. I have hours of […]

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I’ve been having a hard time with the Internet lately, friends. My inbox has been crammed full of spam, somehow eluding my filter…while real mail gets marked spam. The real kicker is that some of the spam is coming from email addresses from my own website. My business site has been hacked…then I read this…..and […]

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So blogging has brought me into contact with all sorts of genuinely good and awesome people. In my writing about The Boy, I have been buoyed up by the kind and encouraging comments of people I have never met. So what I want to know is…where the hell are all you people in real life? […]

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So I made it through the weekend. About time, huh, since it’s, like, Wednesday already. We went on Sunday to do the sprinkling ash dispersement. I got my sorry behind on the boat and didn’t even puke. Not even once. Oh yeah, did I mention I’m not so much a liker of anything boat or […]

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Forgive me for this Internets….
So my cat has this problem I have mentioned before. Gross, right? Yes, very. Well today, he outdid himself. Today, I found this.

Do you see it? Now what the heck is that green string doing…there…..?
Wait, is it hanging out of his butt? Why, yes it is. And why does it […]

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All that has been happening lately has forced me to look a subject that I don’t particularly care for straight in the face. And when I say “don’t particularly care for” I, of course, mean it scares the heck out of me. Freaks me the hell out. Yes, death is one of those things that […]

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