Day 7: Your opinion on cheating on people And here I was complaining about lightweight questions just a few days ago. Ask and ye shall receive. Frankly, my opinion on cheating on people is that it’s reprehensible bullshit. I think it’s awful even when you’re dating and not married; I…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 6
Day 6: The person you like and why you like them I interpret this for what it sounds like: a question on a note passed to a middle-school classmate. For many obvious reasons, Rich is the person I like. He’s been my best friend pretty much since we got serious…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 5
Day 5: 5 things that irritate you about the same sex/opposite sex There are so many directions in which I could take this prompt. And the direction in which I choose to take it: 5 things that women do that irritate me. Prepare for some bitchiness. 1. Calling kids “littles” and…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 4
Day 4: What you wear to bed So far with this challenge, I’m missing the quality of the last challenge’s questions. Maybe these will get more interesting the more days pass. Who knows. Anyhoo, with regard to today’s super-exciting question, I usually wear mismatched things to bed. Old, ratty Old…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 3
Day 3: What kind of person attracts you? This could be a loaded question for this old married lady. Obviously, the answer is someone like my husband: handsome, funny, smart, clever, handy, a good provider, and a great dad. Now, if I were single … Back in the day when…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 2
Day 2: How have you changed in the past two years? This is kind of a general question, isn’t it? I guess the way I’ve changed the most over the past two years is that I’ve given up trying to please other people. I’ve started taking a daily dose of…
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 1
I started 2016 with good intentions, including journaling every day. Then tendonitis hit and, boy, did it hit hard. Any form of writing fell by the wayside since I couldn’t even hold a pen or pencil, and typing was pretty much out of the question (I became a hunt-and-peck typist…
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Photoblogging: Mother’s Day 2014
Yesterday I enjoyed a low-key Mother’s Day, my fourth as Coraline’s lucky mom. We started the day with brunch — Coraline’s favorite meal — at The Egg & I, our first visit and one of the few places with a less than two-hour wait. Then we came home, where Rich…
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Happy 40th Birthday to My Blue-Eyed Boy
Today is Rich’s birthday, the 17th one I’ve celebrated with him. And it’s a biggie: his 40th. While I think I said everything there was to say last year, I still want to wish him all the happiness in the world and that all his birthday wishes come true. He’s…
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Processing Addiction
Song Lyric of the Day: But I never asked for it / But I never did / It’s all a part of his plan / It’s all in his hands / In the basement Perfume Genius / “Never Did“ I had planned to come out of my long winter’s blog hibernation with a…