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Mother’s Day Eve 12 May 2013 | 06:20 am

Ah, Mother’s Day Eve.  Everything is possible tonight. Luka and Alex are sound asleep, tucked away early in preparation for the morning. I sit here alone, enjoying the quiet of the evening. Little f...

Botoxformation 9 May 2013 | 11:38 pm

Here’s what I won’t do:  Age gracefully. Why?  Why should I do that?  Ask anyone who has aged, or is aging- it sucks.  It hurts.  It’s unfair. Really awful things happen to your bowels when you age. ...

Dating Daze. 21 Mar 2013 | 07:37 pm

I once arrived at a restaurant to meet a blind-date, and upon seeing him from behind, sitting at the bar, I turned and fled.  Totally stood him up.  I thought he had a hunchback. He called my cell ph...

The Great Vegan, Cloth Diapering Experiment. In Summary. 11 Mar 2013 | 08:38 pm

VEGAN The Good: Um…..vegetables? The Bad: Nothing, but vegetables.  Or so it seemed. Look, I can imagine, somewhat dimly, that there are those of you who can really enjoy eating a vegan diet, for...

The Great Vegan, Cloth Diapering Experiment. Day One. 4 Mar 2013 | 01:55 am

For those of you who don’t follow me over on the 6:30 and a Glass of Wine facebook page( and why don’t you? ), let me fill you in…. Last week I offered myself as a sacrificial blog lamb to my readers...

Kid Logic 22 Feb 2013 | 01:11 am

My Grandparent’s house was a large, weird, rambling place.  There were myriad ramshackle additions, rooms built within other rooms, a toilet installed at the end of a hallway. Not in a bathroom, there...

I’m Too Old For This… 23 Jan 2013 | 06:32 am

Got another one of these the other day.. That makes twelve months of that awful, taunting, lonely single line. Like all the months before, it stung.  It left me sad and defeated.  Only this month, t...

My son is an addict. 6 Jan 2013 | 01:01 am

And I am his dealer.  His supplier, his pusher, his enabler. What’s the monkey on his back?  Munchkins. We call them by their street name, ” Treats” or “Treeee!” What kind of mother am I?  It was m...

24 – just as exciting as the Fox version, but without Keifer Sutherland and a lot more puke. 7 Dec 2012 | 11:48 pm

6:00 am  He’s up, a little earlier than normal but not unusually early.  Still, I’m walking dead, so I make him a bottle and lay down in bed with him, hoping to lull him back to sleep.  This has never...

The Flu, The Emergency Room and The Hurricane 28 Nov 2012 | 06:59 am

Some of you might recall that I began this post a month or so ago, as the first in a two part riveting tale of a mother, the flu and her toddler. I never did get around to wrapping that story up, in ...

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