Like an innocent little schoolgirl, romping 'round the playground, I've been smacked on the back by a bigger, stronger, faster kid and declared "It" in a brutal game of tag. Okay, that's not entirely accurate. But bullying is just so "in" right now. My friend, Kelly DeBie over at DeBie Hive has tagged me in [...]

So this is why I'm insane. Actually, make that part of why I'm insane. Telling the whole story would take way too long. Yesterday I went skiing with the family and some friends. It was lovely -- warmish, mostly rock-free, and not very crowded (most of the Californians were already sitting in traffic on their [...]

So Saturday, we finally made it to the pumpkin patch. Little background -- we usually go to a pumpkin patch in town, but this year, we thought we'd try out a newish place on the outskirts that our daughter went to on a class trip. It's owned by a family who live on their farm, [...]

Okay, that's it. I'm officially spent. Last weekend, some friends and I walked a few neighborhoods in Reno to Get Out the Vote for Obama (in honor of my cousin, Logan -- it was really nice). We, of course, encountered a number of "I'm not sure who I'm voting for" people. And then this week, [...]

So for whatever reason, I've gotten some bug in my bonnet and am suddenly unwilling to take any crap from anybody.Not the actual buffet, but you get the idea.The other night, we went to the Eldorado Hotel with my brother and his kids. Remember we live in Reno, so we have to do the buffet [...]

All I have to say is, it's a good thing I have a decent sense of humor. Take this morning, for example. I'm currently sort of laughing about how my husband left the dog kennel open and let the puppy escape unnoticed to wake up the boy at 5 a.m., "do his business" on the [...]

Dear Humane Society,You don't know us. Actually, you do know us because ten years ago, we got our first dog from you. I guess at the time I had no idea how lucky we were to have found him so easily because this go-around, it's like we're in some sort of dog hunt from hell.Obviously [...]

So I'm starting to wonder if we're ever going to get another dog.Actually, what I'm really starting to wonder is if in a year, I'll be writing some crazy book called, The Dogs Must Be Crazy: Our Year-Long Search for Fido. Because we've struck out again.As many of you know, our German Shepherd/Akita, Uno, died [...]

All day long today, every time I got into the car and turned on the radio (NPR), I heard news coverage about the Charles Taylor verdict. Charles Taylor was the Liberian president who basically got paid off by rebels in Sierra Leone so they could go on a big raping, pillaging, limb-cutting-off, child-soldier-recruiting spree. He [...]