drama, characters, jersey shore…with gifs!

Oh, I am going to admit a dirty little secret. Ready? Freckles McYoungest and I have been watching old seasons of The Jersey Shore. *Ptui!* Man. I felt filthy just typing that. It started when we were with Bottled Lightning, and she kind of sort of FORCED US to watch an episode or two. Holy [...]

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book banning backfire

When Freckles McYoungest was in eighth grade, her Catholic elementary school got a new principal. It was a shame, because the old principal had been there since before Freckles had been born. Mrs. Original Principal had ushered BoyWonder and Bottled Lightning from preschool through their Wonder Years, and we’d hoped she’d shake Freckles’ hand when [...]

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wondering why i didn’t post last week?

Bottled Lightning is home. Freckles McYoungest has finished her sophomore year. I try desperately to stick to my writing schedule. This is what happens. So yeah. Motherhood.

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as close as your phone

Last night I get a text from Bottled Lightning: mom i have the sleepieeeeez but im in class She’s 21, in college about a thousand miles from here. But if she’s bored, she can get in touch with her mommy anytime, anywhere. I THINK THIS IS WEIRD. When I went to college, all of 90 [...]

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let them go

Okay, all you parents who are easily offended, line up.  You are about to get schooled. There seems to be two types of parents these days.  We’ve got the morons who pay absolutely no attention to their kids, figure their responsibility to their spawn ended the day they plopped them out. I’m not talking to [...]

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not-so-minor characters

This is the Hairy Beast that lives with us.  (Like the kids, I don’t want to compromise her privacy by revealing her true name.)  She is totally devoted to me and the crumbs that I drop.  She follows me around, hides under my feet–I am her mama, through no fault of my own. Our first [...]

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play

The guy who invented this: and this: died last month.  Hans Beck, aged 79. Bow your heads, moms and dads, for a man of brilliance. Boywonder and Bottled Lightning own the above systems and a great many of their accoutrements.  Freckles McYoungest had an American Doll instead.  What a mistake.  I shudder to think of [...]

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1T

I have been chastised. By Bottled Lightning and Freckles McYoungest.  (Boywonder doesn’t give a flyin’ monkey butt.) About my language. No, not the %&**@#!! kind.  They’re fine with that.  It’s text slang.  Apparently, you have to have a license to use it, and there’s an age criteria.  Under 30. Things like “K” instead of okay. [...]

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…from amarillo and abilene…

I have returned from taking Bottled Lightning back to school.  If you’re going to be driving through the Texas panhandle on I-40, here’s a few tips: 1. Have an air conditioner. 2. If you don’t have an air conditioner, don’t go in August. But DO go.  There are some really iconic stops on either side of Amarillo.  On [...]

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moving target

My daughter, Bottled Lightning is home. She spent a month in the Land of the Rampant Cow and Pungent Streets. India, that is. Bottled Lightning is not your typical middle child.  She always has a goal,  an adventure or a cause that she’s working on. I’ve often wondered if she was switched at birth. Even [...]

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