by Mir | Sep 17, 2012 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony, What do I do all day?
I always find myself looking forward to the weekend with a fervor that borders on religious, particularly by Thursday or Friday. It’s going to be SO NICE, I think, and I will SLEEP LATE and RELAX and RECHARGE. And then Monday rolls around and I am just as...
by Mir | Sep 14, 2012 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
One of the things I love most about Hippie School is that it exists just about a step and a half to the left of flat-out Lord of the Flies when the kids are playing outside. (And of course they play outside for hours each day, unlike those good ol’...
by Mir | Sep 12, 2012 | Health is overrated
I don’t really know how interesting this is going to be for 95% of you, but someone asked me to write about it and after some consideration, I decided I would for two reasons: 1) A long-time reader asked, and I like her, and I’m a giver like that and 2)...
by Mir | Sep 11, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
It’s Tuesday, so that means I’m over at Feel More Better. It’s also the 11th anniversary of 9/11, and so I am thinking about what unexpected tragedy means in our everyday life, but I have to warn you, I don’t have any profound, meaningful way...
by Mir | Sep 10, 2012 | Oh look! Something furry!!
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled Reporting On Very Serious And Also Fairly Depressing Things to bring you this important update on where we stand in my campaign to convince Otto we need another dog*. Mario’s family went away for the weekend, and so we had...