The phone rang last night while I was clipping my toenails in the middle of the living room. Justin looked at me in horror and I explained that it makes it easy to clean up since I can just run the Dyson over the carpet. I don't get a lot of phone calls -- my preference is usually text or e-mail -- and so I didn't prioritize running to the phone ( Read more... )

The last month has been really rough on my family. A year ago, my dad told me that things between him and my mom weren't working out. They saw things differently. He said he needed to get his financial house in order and then they'd be going their separate ways. He said he was going to give things a chance, but he didn't see how it was going to ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I remember my mom introducing us to a made-for-tv movie called The Electric Grandmother. It was based on Ray Bradbury's I Sing The Body Electric and starred Maureen Stapleton as the robotic grandmother who moves in with a family after their mother dies ( Read more... )

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