The New Phone Book’s Here! The New Phone Book’s Here! No, Wait. It’s Just the Holiday Letter.

– Posted in: Conservatives are Funny, Gardening, Getting Older, Holiday Letter, Mean People, Money, Politics, Worst Mom Rants

Happy Holidays one and all! Time for the yearly letter. For those of you who don't know, this is kind of how I got started with all the blogging stuff. Once a year, I'd send out a snarky little letter about the state of the world -- not much pressure, except for the fact that [...]

The 2010 Holiday Letter

– Posted in: Conservatives are Funny, Dogs, Family, Green Living, Grown-up Friends, Holiday Letter, Mean Girls, Money, Parenting, Politics, Worst Mom Rants, Writing

So every year, for about the past fifteen years, I've written a holiday letter. It's kind of how this whole blogging thing got started. As you might imagine, my letters weren't exactly laundry lists of the fantastic trips we'd taken or stories about how the kids came home with "Student of the Week" bumper stickers. [...]

The Holiday Letter

– Posted in: Autism Recovery, Getting Older, Holiday Letter, Holidays, Mom dying, Newt's Story, Parenting, Personal Insanity, Religion, Working for Pay, Worst Mom Rants

So as I mentioned earlier, I'm sending out New Year's cards instead of Christmas cards this year (due to my usual lack of organization and punctuality in this department). Many of you, I assume, are reading this as a result of receiving said card and not receiving my annual holiday letter. Instead, you got a [...]