This picture irritates me.  First of all, it implies that people look “kempt” while packing, which is not true.  I pack late at night after having wrangled a toddler to sleep.  You can imagine who delightful and fresh I look at that point.  It also implies that two people pack.  That is also not true!  While [...]

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so I won’t! I will not tell you about my strange medical issues. I will tell you about my attempts to find a diet to fix them! Yes, this is a socially acceptable topic. Finding food. In a little personal experiment, I am trying a gluten-free diet. But here’s the rub: there is gluten in [...]

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I am packing. We move in just under two weeks, and so it falls to me to condense all of our worldly belongings into a pile of neatly packed boxes.  It’s actually quite hard to decide what I can live without for a couple of weeks and what I can’t. For two weeks we will [...]

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This is a picture of Halle Berry, post baby.  Of course, we know that Hollywood moms will never stay looking so round and mommingly, even if it takes a few nips and tucks or several hundred hours with a personal trainer.  I just didn’t want to post a picture of my own tummy, being a [...]

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With a couple of spelling errors that will not be there on the final version:   Send to Facebook

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  This is not the cover for the book, but it is the artwork that is being used for the book.  There she is!  Hyacinth, in all her splendor.  I will post the cover as soon as I get the final image of it.  This book (a double digest!) is due out this December. At [...]

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I married a computer guy.  It wasn’t intentional.  Well, I mean I didn’t accidentally marry HIM, but I didn’t go out of my way to find a computer guy.  It just so happened that my other half has his education (and hobby interest) in gadgets and computers.  I think marrying a computer guy is a [...]

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