Last week, I picked a day and made a list of everything I did. One good day. Keep in mind that many of my days consist of avoiding a shower, sitting on the couch, and reading articles suggested by Digg. Making a list of everything you do can make you have a myriad of feelings, [...]

I'm afraid I'm a day late with this, but I don't care. The fact that we take 24 hours out of the year to pay lip service to our veterans is a little bit silly anyway -- a day shouldn't go by when we aren't outraged that even one vet is sleeping on the streets [...]

I've often heard that one of the best ways to boost kids' self-esteem, decision-making skills, and autonomy is by giving them something to do and then backing off. You know, task them with a job but then allow them to get the job done in a way that they see fit. Incredibly, this works with [...]

  You know that feeling you get when you're flipping through your mail and suddenly you see an envelope with real handwriting on it? That's how I felt when I got the email from Mamapedia, telling me they were running one of my posts. If you get a chance, do me a solid and pop over there. I'm [...]

I don't guest post often -- mainly because I have a hard enough time keeping up with this place and, really, let's face it, who the hell wants me. But one of my bloggy besties -- Kelly of DeBie Hive -- was asking for volunteers for her Writer's Workshop Wednesday series, and I said, "Sure, [...]

So I've been saving this for a rainy day, and boy oh boy is it a good one. I'm stuck in our tent trailer, in Oregon, in the pouring rain. Do not even get me started... Anyway, the great and powerful Kelly DeBie of DeBie Hive sent this, oh, in winter. But you guys know [...]

Partly Sunny isn't here.  Well, she is, but she's not.  She's in two different places at the same time.  It's some sort of Einsteinian, parallel universe, quantum physics thing.  Or. . . So I somehow conned the people over at mampedia.com into running my post on talking about sex with the 6-year-old.  Ugh.  You just [...]

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Whoops.  PartlySunny isn't here.  She's, um. . . indisposed. Photo by Gina MundaCheck out her latest article, "Hoarder Patrol," at Powder Room Graffiti.When money's the issue, should clutter stay or should it go?