Family

You Wicked Thing

I don’t know what other Mothers and Daughters discuss between themselves while eating lunch at Disneyland, but our conversation went something like. “Which evil character do you think you most resemble?” “Evil Character?” “Yea. Lady Tremaine, Cinderella’s wicked Stepmother, Snow White’s step mother the Queen, Cruelladevil, My personal favorite, Maleficent from sleeping beauty…” “Are you …

Continue Reading
Family

No Matter What

I started a tradition and didn’t even know it. I started taking my daughters on “mommy trips”. Just the two of us. Last year I took Ciera to Oregon and Northern California. We rented a car and went wherever we felt like going. One day we sat in an amusement park arguing. But at the …

Continue Reading
Information Random

Business Breakfast Bust

This week we went to a business breakfast meeting. It is held weekly with other business people who work together to promote each other’s work. It is like having 27 other people networking for you. It is a very good idea, don’t you think? I had all these grandiose ideas on how I’d promote my …

Continue Reading
Information Random

SMART GIRL

Today I walked into my employer’s office. He was in a discussion with another attorney. I handed him identical letters to sign. Both needed to be mailed, one certified and the other standard mail. He needed to sign both. No copies allowed. “How did you know that Pam?” “She’s such a smart girl!” “Wow.” “You’re …

Continue Reading
Family

She Called

My son was hurt. Seriously. After the ambulance ride, after the air-vac, after the surgery, after the discovery of his broken back, after his brace fitting, before he recouped In our home, before getting the first of many bills and just as reality of this life altering experience began to penetrate our daily moments, she …

Continue Reading
Family

Still Blogging

I haven’t stopped blogging. I write. I read. I delete. Its therapeutic. I can paraphrase. Yea…. Deleted again. I am thinking of creating a blog where no one knows it’s me and I can say whatever I want and not feel bad or wrong or worried about being bad or wrong or worried. Would you …

Continue Reading
Family

Nothing Ever Gets Done

A conversation – “Do you want to go? Really?” – “No. I feel like I need to.” – “Maybe you could start doing what you really want to do.” – “If everyone did what they wanted to do, nothing would ever get done.” Really. I think Thomas Edison would disagree. “I never did a days …

Continue Reading
Family

I HAVE NEVER FELT SO OLD

Are there pictures of me canoeing 4 miles up river while herding 45 teen-agers in 22 canoes? Nope. But I have sun burned knees and a very shiny red nose! Use your imagination. Are there pictures of all of us hauling said canoes half a mile up a steep mountain on our shoulders while walking …

Continue Reading
Information Random

Not the Dowager Part

‘One day, a dowager of the breed that mistake impertinence for wit took a swipe at him.’ Victor Hugo from Les Misérables I love that line. ‘of the breed that mistake impertinence for wit’. Who hasn’t been of that breed at one youthful or drunken or weak moment in their life? (Not the Dowager part, …

Continue Reading