by Mir | Apr 30, 2008 | My name is Grumplestiltskin
… that it’s not going to be a good day when you’re headed out to the dentist and you end up running over a squirrel. God, I hate squirrels. HATE THEM. Still, it’s not like I TRIED to run him over. He (she? it?) was darting back and forth ahead...
by Mir | Apr 29, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Other than some good ol’ boy showing up on my doorstep yesterday to ask if “dat dere truck’s fer sale, I’s seen it jus’ settin’ dere a few times,” it was an extremely ordinary day. (I told my visitor that the truck was not, in...
by Mir | Apr 28, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Retail Therapy
The kids were off with their dad this weekend, so Otto and I immediately set about making fancy romantic plans for ourselves. You know the sort—a run to the hardware store, a few hours spent cleaning up the office, meal-planning for the week and fetching...
by Mir | Apr 26, 2008 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Tonight I had my first experience with up-close and personal gymnastics stars. Yes! Otto and I had tickets to go watch the NCAA women’s individual finals, and so—despite neither of us being super-huge gymnastics fans—we headed off to cheer for our...
by Mir | Apr 25, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Sometimes, I sit down to write in the morning and there is a Big Thing on my mind that I really do NOT want to get into, so I try to find something else to natter on about, and then sometimes there is simply nothing shiny available and my children have been neither...
