What with all the ankle spraining, Pesach scrambling, sick getting, work drama filled days of late I've been basically in "putting out fires" mode and not really getting any time to just breathe and be.  I think however that with most of the recent unpleasantness and/or stress factors behind me I am feeling optimistic about the next few weeks.  ( Read more... )

I'm a compulsive reader and one of my proudest accomplishments (I should say "our" because John is also a reader) is instilling this horrid trait in my children.  Many evenings will find us in our beds, or even all in this bed reading our respective books, magazines, etc.  We all have the habit of reading passages to each other .  We read whie we ( Read more... )

I heart Wondermark . (Because I am clueless with the whole concept of how to make pictures bigger you need to click on this to read it or just go to the site)


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Chris Mooney is my newest crush.  He's cute and he wrote The Republican War on Science ( read this book, although if you lean to the right you may want to pass) and his blog is fascinating.

OK, back to reading.

I thought I'd managed to avoid being affected by a measily one hour difference in time but no, I can't wake up early yet. John got the kids off to school yesterday and today and I am just managing to rouse myself enough to dress and head in to work.  It's possible that my glucose is dropping very low while I sleep, the numbers are pretty low when I ( Read more... )

Nope, not TMI. Just John, the kids and I playing Bop It!. One can certainly achieve nirvana playing Bop It!, if one is able to achieve nirvana by simply listening to what the voices tell one...

I spent this afternoon reading Francesca Lia Block's Psyche in a Dress.  It's not secret to anyone that Block is probably one of my favorite authors around ( Read more... )

Hey, I frogott the whole location, mood, music thing.