On Sunday, August 29, 2010 Outside my window…Oleander blossoms, prickly pear fruit clusters, palm trees shedding skin and branches into the street, clouds mustering forces into thunderhead battalions, a punishing…
Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>
“Yinz goin’ Dahn-tahn, n’at?” Sounds like a foreign language, but it’s not. It’s Pittsburgh. Home of the Steeler Nation, more mullets per capita than any city, and an astounding array…
Now here’s a problem I want in my life: Four pints of raspberries. Warm to the touch from the sun they drank through the spiky umbilical cords of their mother…
It’s hard, real hard, to get “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” unstuck from my brain. That stupid little sing-song phrase ranks right up…
Sit. Stay at home, mom. Stay. I chose to be a stay-at-home mom. I willingly gave up grading vocab quizzes, rousing snoozing students from drool-slicked desktops, signing crumpled hall passes,…
It’s finally arrived: Summer Vacation. (Necessary to slap capital letters on those words.) While I’m (not) busy this week sipping sweet tea on a South Carolina beach, three of my…