Old School Posts

• ILI Interview: Erin Kotecki Vest (a.k.a. Queen of Spain)

  Warning: if you are a particularly insecure soul, you might want to stop reading now. Why? (I told you to stop reading.) Because Erin Kotecki Vest is an impressive creature and hearing about her sundry accomplishments might make you feel even more insecure. Consider yourself warned. A fellow blog

• Embrace Pain

  "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." Kenji Miyazawa We have all experienced pain in the past. We all continue to experience pain today. We will all experience pain in the future. These three sentences? They are not meant to depress you. Or me. They are meant to be simple

• Everything Organic?

  It's become almost a moral issue, a near religion. Do you buy all organic? Just organic dairy? No organic at all? Do you remember a time when this wasn't talked about so much? When we just bought what we bought and didn't wonder or preach or stand there in front of the refrigerator at the store

• That Little Pink Stroller

  [caption id="attachment_1784" align="alignnone" width="520" caption="{Trust me. It's pink.}"][/caption] If you have a little girl between the ages of one and four, my guess is that you own that little pink stroller. It is flimsy and folds. The "hardware" is bubble gum pink and the seat is pin

• I Spoon My Cat. Sue Me.

  Sundays are usually sluggish around here, but today is different; I am certifiably comatose on the couch.  The coffee is having no effect.  Just asked Husband if he accidentally brewed Decaf. Why is this?  It could be the weather.  The sky is slate and spitting ever so slightly, creating some no

• Pressing Pause

  Last April, I started this blog. To be honest, I was utterly ignorant about this world, about its residents, about the conversations that go on here. All I knew was that I loved to write. I knew that I had written a book of which I was maternally proud. I knew that writing every day would be b

• The Quiet Beauty of Broken Promises

  Better a broken promise than none at all. Mark Twain It amazes me how life works. How things happen. Late last Thursday night, after making a promise to turn in the first pages of my manuscript the following day, I wrote the following words. The intention was to post them the next day, Frida

• Dear Facebook

  Dear Facebook, It's one thing to mess with me, but another thing entirely to mess with my mother-in-law. Grammy is a good person. And when I sent her that photo album you were kind enough to allow me to create, you insisted she join your site to view the album. All she wanted to do was see pic

• Time or Space?

  Last weekend, Husband and I were in Napa for a wedding. And I hope to devote an entire post to that wedding because it was absolutely lovely and I have a few good stories to tell. But today. Today, I will tell you about our drive from the hotel to the airport on the way back. There were five

• Bad News Bagel

  This morning, Toddler was hungry. And like a good mom, I was on it! I surveyed the fridge and concluded that expired condiments, however varied and cleverly combined, would not make for an appropriate breakfast. "Want a bagel?" I asked. Her blue eyes lit up and she crooned a singsong, "Yes