one night’s rest

I took the frame apart from the bed, which had been slowly breaking.  I kept trying to put one of the slats back in, making the screws fit, but it wouldn’t quite catch, hold, and be stable.   Finally I gave up trying to make this jumble of wood into the shape of a bed.  The [...]

sigh or argh or something

I tried to read some blogs that I don’t usually read, then was just overwhelmed with the stupidity.
Clearly my own writing isn’t award winning, but I also don’t have thousands of hits. It’s slightly depressing that the top blogs, reflecting what so many people think is worth reading, are not really worth much to [...]

deviled eggs

I just had a very distinct memory of tasting deviled eggs.  It’s decadent: mayonaise mixed with the boiled yolk, served back inside the boiled white.  Strange and good, but only if I’m in the right mood.  It used to be anytime, but now I can hit a line where something feels really wrong.
This week is [...]

evil ninja mom

In the elevator, on the way home from the Girl Scouts meeting, the morsel was pretending to attack me.  All of the sudden I was ‘evil ninja mom’.  We talked a lot this weekend, and I feel pretty good about our relationship.  I still got on her for choosing chocolate milk at school, but I [...]