by Mir | Aug 7, 2012 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Today you can find me playing the role of crusty ol’ curmudgeon over at Feel More Better, where I am lamenting the role that rewards have come to play in our children’s lives. Not a new topic, to be sure, but driven home for me yesterday in an unexpected...
by Mir | Aug 6, 2012 | Health is overrated, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
It’s official; we have reached the portion of 2012 where things have been so incredibly suckalicious that my hands hover over the keyboard while I wrestle with the very real fear that you will just stop believing what I’m saying. Because it’s...
by Mir | Aug 3, 2012 | Woohoo!
Otto’s car isn’t salvageable, unless you count “costing as much money to fix it as the car is worth” as salvageable, which I do not. Monkey is on day two of a Mysterious Fever, which today came with a bonus Mysterious Rash. And yet… my...
by Mir | Aug 2, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Ottomatic For the People
I knew, of course, that yesterday would be a hard day. Days when we see Chickadee for family therapy are hard, because she is not exactly what you would call pro-therapy. Things are better—so much better—than they used to be there, really. There is no...
by Mir | Jul 31, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the notion of things you “have” to have or that are worth working towards. In a lot of ways, life was simpler when my biggest concerns were packing lunches and getting some work done every day. On the other hand,...
