I had dinner with my eX.
Yep, you heard me right. Weird I know. And for those of you who know the two of us it is especially weird.
Ten years after a highly contentious divorce, a consistent littering of acrimonious barbs, terse emails, and putting the children in the middle more...
It was just like every other Thursday. I picked my daughter up from school at 3:00 and we were fighting traffic to get home and make snacks. But this particular Thursday she could barely contain herself. “Can’t you drive any faster mom” she said. What’s the...
Every year we people confidently make New Years resolutions with absolute conviction, only to dump out of them within the first 30 days of the soapbox top pronouncements. The tradition of resolutions dates back to Babylonian times, reneging on them is a fairly recent phenom. Back...
Another Monday another doctors visit. Today was a special visit for my mom, we went to her rheumatologist, he is physician she’s been seeing regularly for the past 15 years. She loves this guy. He has done wonders easing her osteo pain and she is very grateful to him.
Unfortunately,...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI83-LYvgyY[/youtube]For years my Mom has been haranguing me about purchasing one of those embarrassing “just for old folks” and “guys who drink too much beer and watch football all day” recliners. I adamantly refused!...
A sandwich seems so polite, casually sophisticated, something you savor between breakfast and dinner, a delicious bite between morning meetings and afternoon phone calls. But being an active member of the “sandwich generation” is no walk in the park. The terminology was...
It’s been a little over two years since my father passed on. I can honestly say that time had to be the most difficult period of my life. My dad was a good man and he and my mother had a very compassionate and caring relationship. They were both getting older but managed to...
Over the years I have had some pretty amazing conversations with my daughters. We talk about anything and everything. Like I know who the designated driver for the evening, yes I am fully aware there is underage drinking. I find out exactly what’s happening at school, who’s...
Housework makes me grumpy, how about you? But I am also a clean freak. So girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. Fortunately, I have devised some great tricks over the years to keep the house clean and the cleaning to a minimum. Plus there are some brilliant new products to simplify...
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