by Mir | May 26, 2006 | What do I do all day?
Dear Chickadee, This week you have lied about all manner of things both important and inconsequential, insisted on wearing overalls two sizes too small to school, tormented your brother, and generally driven me insane. So it was with some trepidation that I asked you...
by Mir | May 25, 2006 | Retail Therapy
The wheels of bureaucracy continue to turn, albeit at the standard snail-like pace. I don’t really have an update for all of you pretty people who are joining me in shaking a fist in the air (or, alternatively, right in Ramon’s face), but things are...
by Mir | May 24, 2006 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
My children love a good joke. And while I am delighted that we’ve (finally) moved past the knock-knock stage, it’s hard to know at any given time what sort of jokes they’ll like, or even get. Our ongoing quest at the moment is to get Monkey to...
by Mir | May 23, 2006 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
I’m working on the score right now. I anticipate a smash hit, actually. There are lots of catchy songs, and I dunno, they just CAME to me. Almost like I already knew them. Let’s see. There’s “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Lung Fungus.”...
by Mir | May 21, 2006 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
[But first! A non-sequitor! I am SO ENJOYING all of the angry comments/emails I continue to receive about this post, where I thought I was making fun of a commercial but APPARENTLY I was REALLY saying that I thought cancer was funny. Because that’s the sort of...