by Mir | Oct 9, 2015 | Job? Huh?, What do I do all day?
College sounds like a terrible addition to a chicken and parsnips dish. It would make it taste funny! But I am a poor planner and so I am jamming two wholly unrelated things together, plus I am giving you a recipe I sort of Frankenstein-ed together just because I...
by Mir | Oct 5, 2015 | Ottomatic For the People
When you have kids and you remarry, you hope that eventually your children and your new spouse will someday share the kind of loving bond you already have with your kids. You know that it will take time and hard work, but still, you hope. Maybe you don’t...
by Mir | Oct 2, 2015 | Job? Huh?, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I find it very tempting, when bad things happen in the world, to become furious with everyone and everything and assume that life is hopeless and awful, etc. But I’m trying to figure out how not to do that, so much. Yesterday Monkey called me from school because...
by Mir | Sep 30, 2015 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I love reading articles about “today’s teens” because they never actually sound like they’re about any real-life teenagers I’ve met. Granted, my special snowflakes are the specialest and the flakiest (haaaa) and their friends also tend to...
by Mir | Sep 28, 2015 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Oh look! Something furry!!, Ottomatic For the People
It has come to my attention that my perception of “normal” may be… a little off. Weird, right? I—and my family/home—am the picture of boring normalness, surely. (Voices in my head: Yeah, no. Also, don’t call me Shirley.) I mean,...
