Every once in a blue moon, you get one of those days that validates your life. The kids and I ditched school today and went on a little field trip (actually, they ditched school -- I don't go to school). I have a friend who works for one of the state assemblywomen, so we got [...]

I almost got run off the road today. I have an Obama sticker on my car, and every once in a while, someone with a sticker "representing a view that may be perceived as different than mine" makes a point of racing around me, cutting me off, and then driving slowly in front of me. [...]

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. [...]

I'm gonna go a little street-rat crazy here. . .If you haven't been hiding under a rock, stuck on a deserted island, or buried by the burdens of your house and children (I'm throwing in that last one because I hardly ever watched the news this summer due to the beasties), you've no doubt heard [...]

I went out the other night and met some friends for a drink.  This was, I'm sad to say, one of the more exciting events of late, due to the fact that my life is incredibly boring.  But here's what made it even more irregular:  I was sans husband, it was a school night, and [...]

My "long-time readers" may have noticed that I have some new additions to the blog. The most recent is the Xerox widget -- they've set up a website where you can pick out a postcard, personalize it, and they'll mail it to a soldier. Pretty cool. Only takes about 30 seconds. More effective, in my [...]