August 2010

I remember this feeling.  A vague nauseousness in my stomach.  That sense of Fight or Flight.  Mostly flight.  It reminds me of that day, every quarter, in elementary school when report cards came out.  Back when you got “O”‘s instead of A’s, and there were so many categories to be graded on that you were [...]

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So remember the last two weeks?  When I had something new, shiny, and funny for you to read every day?  Because I was going to be on top of a mountain proving my devotion to family by going cold-turkey on the DSL for two weeks?  So I shamelessly begged flattered some Amazing authors to blog [...]

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Emotional Baggage Check

August 12, 2010

Growing up in a military family, we took plenty of road trips.  There were your standard road trips for Thanksgiving, Easter, and summer vacation.  There were the slightly-less than standard road trips in which we piled everything we could legally fit in a station wagon and followed a moving van across the country to our [...]

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So I didn’t actually write what I want you to read today – But I sooo wish I had!  His Wife is one of my regular reads, and a few days ago she posted this brilliant piece about her own road trip.  I only wish I had been gone longer so I could have asked her [...]

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The apartment building the Big Man and I live in is, for the most part, an odd mix of friendly hermits.  We all know of each other; we’ve all introduced ourselves to each other at one point or another in passing; we all say hi to one another whenever its too awkward not to.  Sure, [...]

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The Empress is one of my favorite Mama bloggers, who rules her land with a fair and even hand.  She can be found over at Good Day, Regular People writing about everything from her son’s secret candy stash to her secret identity as Celine Dion.  You can’t help but relate – although, sadly (?), I find [...]

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Alright kids, we’re coming to the end of my one-woman odessey to the land DSL forgot so I have one last road trip down memory lane for ya’ll.   (Although be sure to come back tomorrow for our final guest host – her royal highness, The Empress!!) This particular road trip wasn’t actually intended to [...]

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