Monthly Archive for November, 2005

I’m sporting a new look tonight … a goose egg in the back of my head. All because of a birthday party. An ice skating party. You already see where this is going, don’t you? I had been planning to drop Maia off at the party, but common sense got the better of me since […]

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Death by candy wrappers

“Crinkle, crinkle, shwoooop,” said the vacuum cleaner. “What was that?” asked my mom, who heard the unmistakable sound of a candy wrapper being sucked into oblivion from clear across the house. “Uh oh,” thought Aunt Marge*. Poor Aunt Marge. It wasn’t her fault. She was only trying to help. Little did she know, that single […]

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Patience is, um, a virtue?

I, as do all living, breathing, bipedal creatures who presume to classify themselves as genus “homo” species “sapiens,” have many character flaws that routinely put me in my place and prove me only human. But probably the most fatal is that I was not exactly blessed with the gift of patience. Just ask anyone who […]

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