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  • Mama Plays Pretend

    Pretending to be Scarlett O’Hara in 95-degree high humidity heat with four children along, is never a good plan. But good plans are not my strong suit and I’d just finished reading Gone With the Wind. So, the idea of Civ…

  • Random Worry

    It started off with the mosquito truck. The mosquito truck we gleefully ran behind as it sprayed, the mosquitos dropping dead off our skin. Now, mothers two miles away can be heard heralding it's arrival. "Take cove…

  • Thinking About Yellow Fever

    5 Things I learned from The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby 1. Yellow Fever Freaks Me Out 2. So do Mosquitos. (Do you think I can bribe the city mosquito spraying truck to spray my house with a double dose…

  • My Chicken Soup Story

    Amazon.com is making me crazy or crazier, rather. Last week, the book I'll be in (crossing fingers Please please please please) said pre order now. And this week it says in stock. So, I'm not sure what to think. T…

  • Waiting for the Dam to Break

    "I must live until January 7th," I thought at 6 am on Mother's Day morning. My first thought, if you didn't count all the mean ones regarding little children determined to spoil me rotten with blackened toast and three …

  • Things Not to Do When Not So Patiently Awaiting An Article To Come Out 1) Decide to be Betty (Blankety Blank) Crocker straight from scratch, for every teacher at school, neighbor on the street, friend you've known since …

  • Sung to the tune of I Feel Pretty I feel crazyOh so crazyI feel crazy and hazy and wild.And I pityAny one who lives with me tonight. I am a nervous wreck! Is anyone surprised? I think I'm more crazed this time than the…

  • Stand By Me Flashback

    In the summer of 1986, I spent 90% of the months of June and July, on the worn carpet of our duplex on Kynette Street, with my finger attached to the record button of our first VCR. MTV played the commercial often, one …

  • 1. Is anyone as horrified of birds as myself after hearing all this bird flu business?? While I realize it is an irrational fear, I find myself cheering on the cats chasing of said creatures. 2. Apparently the sewer p…

  • 12 days and 31 minutes until I go to record it... Which also means 12 days, and now 30 minutes during which to obsess over what to wear (I assume paint stained t-shirts and comfy pajama pants won't do. What does one wea…

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