So two weeks ago, I was rear ended by a drunk driver (sorry -- timeliness has never been one of my strong suits).My poor little hybridActually, she wasn't a "drunk" driver. Turns out she was on a bunch of prescription drugs. Which makes more sense, seeing as it was 9:30 in the morning. As my [...]

I haven't been around much in Internet land. Last weekend, I took the kids to Monterey (which was quite the haul in a three-day span). Then they had to do Nevada Day reports (Sarah Winnemucca and the Hoover Dam, if you're just crazy curious). And, of course, there was Halloween. And yes, all of that stuff [...]

So yesterday, they announced the BlogHer Voices of the Year. For those of you who don't follow this stuff, BlogHer is the women's blogging network. They have a gazillion followers, an ad program, a huge yearly conference -- you get the picture. Anyway, every year, bloggers submit their writing to VOTY and cross their fingers that [...]

So here's where I am right now. . .• We just got home from an eight-day, second annual Nevada road trip (this time to Vegas), and my house looks as though mythical creatures who secretly live underneath my carpet have finally shown themselves and puked up the following: dirty laundry that smells like casino smoke [...]

I'm having one of my typically partly sunny days.On the one hand, it's kind of been like my birthday. The Empress, over at Good Day Regular People, featured me in her "Get To Know Thursdays." I don't want to get all hyperbolical on everybody, but you know how they honor people at awards shows with [...]

So for those of you who actually subscribe to this little blog of mine, I'm going to have to beg your forgiveness. I may be driving you slightly crazy over the next few hours (days?) as I attempt to load a new comment application onto my blog. You'll love it, I'm sure, after the fact. [...]

My friend, Bel, just started a gardening blog called Green Out Every Window, and unfortunately for her, I'm the most experienced blogger she knows. I've been attempting to help her through some of the things that once took me ten hours in the hopes that maybe they'll only take her two. It's like the blind [...]

I've been thinking about this a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that being married to an Emergency Room doctor kind of sucks.  Not in the way that most outsiders would probably think.  Sure, in the beginning there was that whole "fear of needle sticks giving him HIV" thing, but you get over that [...]

I've had, on numerous occasions, delusions of grandeur wherein I take the entire family on a year-long trip around the world and blog the whole time. Before kids, Tenzin and I were relatively big world travelers, so I've had these crazy dreams about trekking around the globe with the kids and letting the world be [...]