by Mir | Mar 31, 2008 | Job? Huh?, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I did my second stint as a guest speaker in a journalism class this morning, and I am once again reminded that there is no greater privilege than shaping young minds. Wait, what? Geez, I’m sorry. Sometimes when I haven’t had enough coffee, a large LOAD OF...
by Mir | Mar 29, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Ottomatic For the People
The men in my life are incomparable. (I like how that word can be used to mean… pretty much whatever you’d like it to mean. It might be great! It might be terrifying!) The other night as we were finishing up dinner, I leaned over and kissed Otto. I...
by Mir | Mar 28, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Good morning! I have to make this quick, because this morning I have to go run some errands, and by “run some errands” I of course mean “buy a hat.” My inability to figure out what the hell I’m doing with my hair as regards either the cut...
by Mir | Mar 27, 2008 | Growing, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I may have mentioned that I accompanied my daughter’s class on a field trip on Monday. There’s really no way to describe heading into the woods with twenty-four fourth graders, some of whom believe that nature ends at the edge of the playground. Chickadee...
by Mir | Mar 26, 2008 | Job? Huh?, Retail Therapy
There aren’t words to adequately describe how completely ANNOYED I was when I dashed off yesterday’s post, and even as I wrote it I thought to myself that folks would probably suggest I take a nice hot bath or perhaps half a bottle of Xanax and go have...
