by Mir | Mar 19, 2005 | Retail Therapy
After three (long) days, I appear to have shaken my migraine. This is A Very Good Thing. The Less Good Thing is that in its wake—no longer left trying to focus around searing pain and/or wavering vision—I’m left with this feeling of restlessness in...
by Mir | Mar 17, 2005 | Growing
If you’ve ever taken Psych 101, you’ve seen this image. What do you see? An old woman, or a young girl? Today–a “one step forward, three steps back” kind of day–I feel like I’m sizing up a picture like this. First I see the...
by Mir | Mar 16, 2005 | What do I do all day?
When I buy Girl Scout Cookies (and I always buy Girl Scout Cookies, only because it’s a good cause… shut up) I put them in my deep freeze in the basement. I suffer from the delusion that 1) freezing them and 2) making them slightly harder to access will...
by Mir | Mar 15, 2005 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
I had an entire post planned about The Great Pop Tart Debacle. It happened this morning and it was… majestic. In the worst possible (yet quite amusing) way. I wanted to share it and the utter JOY that is the thought process of a child that renders one foil...
by Mir | Mar 14, 2005 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Dear Mrs. Unpronounceable, I know that you’ve only been teaching first grade for… what is it? Fifty years? So probably I am the first parent in the history of your teaching career to allow her child to come to school in her pajamas. (Well, no; that seems...
