Fun Sunday morning activity at our house.  I had to leave the premises … seriously, it takes cajones to give a 7 year old a box of matches and stand back and watch.   I do not have cajones. This is actually where I cut out but  I came back in time to see the traditional [...]

Okay, so I haven’t posted in awhile.  A long while, actually.  76 days, to be exact.  So would you like to know what I’ve been up to? Summer was pretty eventful … I spent a lot of time with these two characters on the beach.  It was a gloomy summer here this year but we [...]

This is the sweetest thing I have ever seen. We should all be loved like this… [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14325334[/vimeo] If you’re using Firefox, you might need to watch it the old fashioned way … by clicking here. Oh, and here’s the story behind it.

When I was growing up, my family went on the same vacation every year. We backpacked – at first in the Sierras, then in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado – as a family. Every. Single. Year. You went to Disneyland when you were three years old? How nice for you. Here’s the summer of my [...]

I’ve never played Random Tuesday Thoughts before but I really feel uniquely qualified lately since I can’t keep a thought in my head for more than a few seconds these days.  So here I go!  Watch me jump from the high dive! I get too many magazines.   I put them in a big basket on [...]

Well, as embarrassing as it is, I just skimmed read Suzanne Somers’ book called “The Sexy Years.”   (It’s so pathetic in so many ways, I’m blushing as I type.) Chrissy Suzanne has reinvented herself several times in recent years as an expert in exercise, diet and, most recently, perimenopausal and menopausal health.  She’s smart, wickedly [...]