by Mir | Oct 19, 2007 | My name is Grumplestiltskin, Ottomatic For the People
Recent events have turned me into a not altogether pleasant person. I am worried sick about Monkey; there is a story forthcoming about The House That Will Not Sell that sort of makes me want to punch myself in the face because, honestly, there should be a limit to the...
by Mir | Oct 18, 2007 | My name is Grumplestiltskin, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I am trying. I am trying to see and appreciate the good in the folks who are TRYING to help my child despite various limitations, be they the constraints of school policy, understaffing, or their own preconceived notions. Or their own faulty memories. So let’s...
by Mir | Oct 17, 2007 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I don’t know what it’s like when you have more than a couple of kids (Chris?), but when you only have two, there is a very fine unwritten rule to which they instinctively adhere: Only one child can be in crisis at a time*. *The exception to this rule is a...
by Mir | Oct 16, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Fall has arrived here in Georgia! I know this because our grass is dead. Oh, sure, it was dead before. But now it is REALLY dead. Deader than dead. You can hear it crying as you walk across the lawn and huge tufts of it throw themselves up out of the soil behind your...
by Mir | Oct 15, 2007 | Ottomatic For the People, What do I do all day?
… have big plans but in the end are astonishingly lazy. (Wow, that really doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the way the original does, huh?) The kids spent the weekend with their father, which meant that after Monkey’s soccer game on Saturday they...
