I had more people on the cookie list this year, so I made more than last year...my total ended up being 158 dozen (7 types of cookies, plus 4 batches each of chocolate and peanut butter fudge, and about 8 dozen peanut butter balls). Well, my tins this year must have been smaller or maybe I was afraid I would run out, I don't know, because even ( Read more... )

Do you want to be right? Or do you want to be happy?---Gerald Jampolsky, MD

Sometimes the right thing is a luxury. It can have profoundly dangerous consequences. ---Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica

( An incredibly long post about the singular and collective ego and the need to be right OR how Battlestar Galactica ate my brain… )

I have canoe training this weekend; but I can’t complain.

( no, really )

Volume I

Volume II

( Volume III )

( This journal has gone to the dogs )

Thursday we had a tiny little weather event…a little over an inch of snow followed by a bit of freezing rain. Long story short…I went in to work 2 hours late…when Savannah caught on I was going to work she was literally on her knees begging me not to go…because when I stay home, no school. “Mom, you can’t go, it’s too dangerous.” “Mom, you can’t go ( Read more... )

Savannah and I leave for Atlanta tomorrow to see the Dalai Lama on Sunday and Monday. I have been looking forward to this for a long time, I am so grateful for the opportunity to see His Holiness; it feels like a once in a lifetime opportunity.

( Philosophical, self-serving ramblings )