I question this approach. But before I begin, let us have some background. Here is a typical day for my oldest child. 6:45 am- wakes up. 7:00 am- Must be in the kitchen by this time, fully dressed, to make her own breakfast (usually cheerios- I think that instead of calling them baby kibble, babyContinue reading “Ramming it down their throats”
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A little nostalgia and just in time…
Look what some beautiful soul gave us for Valentine’s day… But enough of the mushy stuff already.Nomeansno. The sweet sound of my youth. Okay and my adulthood. Nothing makes me happier than listening to these two sounds. Except for maybe listening to the whole album. And God knows I need happy these days. I don’tContinue reading “A little nostalgia and just in time…”
Rage
Rage. I have some. It bubbles like magma right below the surface and is ready to blow at any slight provocation, any change in the emotional climate. Today it was set off by a variety of irritations, inoccuous in themsleves, but taken together caused me to turn into Mr. Hyde so quickly my children didContinue reading “Rage”
Know thyself…and then run to the bathroom
They say that the three most stressful things in our cushy middle class existence is marriage, moving and buying a house. (Who’s “they”, I hear certain friends asking? I don’t know, they! the faceless, cliché spouting masses, okay?) Well, I would like to add to that the deadly threesome, the diabolic trinity of moving twoContinue reading “Know thyself…and then run to the bathroom”
Lina Branter 