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Here I am, another year older. It was a great birthday, although I couldn't really eat anything, but I had lots of Buffalo Stout and so...

Who posts about how happy they are are to have a cold? Sheesh, I deserve this left over runny nose. This past weekend can be described in tw...

I have a cold. A glorious, boring, I'm pretty sure you can't die from 'em COLD. What's better, I caught it from my normal, s...

Wow, that whole holiday season thing, like, totally knocked me over flat. And then when I wiped the candy cane and gelt dust off of my face ...

Wait a minute. What's that sound? .... OK, except for the freezer making ice cubes and the dog sighing, all I hear is...nothing. Typing....

So much celebrating lately! Between holidays, the end of radiation, and the general feeling of goodwill that seems to follow me wherever I g...

My appetite came back tonight, just for the evening. I think it was a nice treat to help get me ready for Thanksgiving next week. Not that p...

So let's talk about the things in life that don't make want to curl up in a ball and cry and cry and cry until the giant hill I live...

So. Where have I been for the last 6 weeks? I've been here . And here . And spending lots of time in one of these . And getting one of t...

Finally, after months of perfectly acceptable but hardly tank top worthy weather, Indian Summer (also known to us Bay Area folk as "rea...

Just a quick update: play school ROCKS. There were some tears when I tried to make the kiddo stand still in front of our house for a photo o...

The kiddo starts school tomorrow. What, what? Is he even two yet? No. He is 22.5 months old, and has already been accepted to Harvard. Lucky...

I could write 50 million blog posts about the fun things we did in Minneapolis, and it would still fall criminally short of describing the a...

Remember last Spring when I talked about our cracker jack plans for a garden ? Well, we did end up with some fairly edible prizes to show fo...

I loves me some animal cruelty. As long as it's adorable!

Whoops! I did it again. And I'm not just saying that because I'm wearing my hair in pigtails with fluffy pink hairbands. I let a who...

It already seems like years ago, but we took Samson camping last Friday. He did really well, as well as can be expected of a 21 month old sp...

Max and I are taking the kiddo camping tomorrow, and we're super excited. It will be Samson's first camping trip, Max's and my f...

A few weeks ago, Samson and I went to Portland to visit good ol' Dedi and spend some time with her toe headed progeny. We had great fun;...

To better reflect the direction my life seems to be going, I'm changing the name of this blog. The top contenders, in no particular orde...