by Mir | Jun 22, 2015 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", What do I do all day?
Have I mentioned that I am slightly… er… underemployed at the moment? And how that’s just fine, because I haven’t had a slow period in over a decade, and it’s summer, and we are doing Fun Things and years and years of being completely...
by Mir | Jun 17, 2015 | What do I do all day?
Here in Georgia it was rainy, rainy, rainy for a while and now the temperature is hovering around 100 all this week. In other words: My garden is going bananas and it’s HOOOOOOOOOT (um, very hot, not hoot) out and I’m getting a little loopy. Yesterday I...
by Mir | Jun 16, 2015 | Retail Therapy
First: THANK YOU to everyone who responded to yesterday’s post. I found it very helpful, and the girlchild read all your responses as well. I love having a collective brain-trust to draw on so that it’s not always just WELL MOM THAT WAS JUST YOU. Turns out...
by Mir | Jun 15, 2015 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I’m about 700 words into a different post and I realized that wasn’t really what I wanted to talk about. In fact, I realized I don’t want to talk, because I feel like all I do is talk, and the people I have a habit of talking at/to are tuning me out....
by Mir | Jun 12, 2015 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
My favorite thing about writing for Alpha Mom is the occasional, drive-by, years-after-the-original-post which is always—and I do mean ALWAYS—someone who wants to tell me that I’m an insult to humanity and irrevocably screwing up my children. You...
