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Category: family
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Piglets
My grandparents ran a mixed farm in the fifties and sixties. While their primary cash crop was tobacco they had enough dairy cows to warrant the milk truck stopping by and picking up a few cans each morning. They also grew corn and vegetables and raised chickens. I’m sure they did a lot of other…
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Shoulda Woulda Coulda
There should have been a blog post today. Nominally, I write them in the morning (veery early) or the day before and schedule them. However, well, what I would do on one day rarely works on another day around here. I thought, when I was a young and naive mother of babies and toddlers, that…
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Male Propaganda
I’m going to share a part of my friend Richard Hailey’s blog on the Gillette Ad. Coming right on the heels of my own take, he’s taken the time to thoughtfully dissect the ad’s scenes, and he’s hit the nail on the head when he calls it propaganda, and why. I highly recommend you follow…
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Nurturing Men
I haven’t yet watched the ad. You know the one I mean, the one with the well meant intentions that went off the rails. Look, the underlying concept is sound. Men need mentors. Men, societally speaking, don’t have a lot of healthy male role models. Look at the statistics. We live in a world of…
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It’s a small life
There are days I let the blog go not only because I’m tired, overwhelmed, but because I have nothing significant to say. It’s a small life, after all. My world revolves around my kids, my husband, the dog, the house, sometimes the garden… and work, which I can’t really talk about here. So I don’t…
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Alaskan Twelve Days of Christmas
Thirty years ago, my dad and my Uncle Doug wrote out the lyrics, which should of course be sung to the familiar tune… I did a little sketch to go with it, was going to do more and decided that would be too many images in one post! Enjoy! On the twelfth day of Christmas,…
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Induction of a Voter
The Ginja Ninja turned eighteen this summer, so today she cast a ballot for the very first time. She was super excited about it, and I was very proud of her enthusiasm. After I picked her and the Junior Mad Scientist up from college, we went to vote. There was a small line – just…
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In Memento Mori
It was a good weekend. It’s been a long time since I had the time to really deep clean the house – I don’t want to throw shade on my family, they do help around the house and most of the time we keep chugging along happily. It’s just that there are things only I…
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No Babies Here
I took a week off from the blog. It wasn’t something I’d planned to do, it just happened. Work has been work, but family has been… It’s an interesting season of life. You’d think, with four teenagers, one of them completely independent and out of the house, I’d have more time, not less. Ha. Hahahahaaha!…
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Mom’s Taxi Service
In years to come, when I look back on this era in my life, I might possibly miss it. Possibly. That’s a bit of a stretch at the moment, while I seem to be perpetually tired, hungry, and exasperated. Then again, I didn’t think I’d miss having wee ones who didn’t sleep through the night…
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Pantry Organization
If you all are anything like me – and from the sounds of it, many of you are at least in this respect – you know and embrace the value of a fully loaded and operational pantry. The ability to provide for one’s family at the drop of a hat… or, more likely, during an…
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Geeky Kids learn Renovation
Over the weekend, we transformed the girls’ bedroom. Friday, beds and everything else came out and the room was cleaned preliminary to gutting it. Sunday evening, beds went back in. Monday morning? Two very excited teens were up bright and early, excited to move all their things back in, hang posters, and bubble over about…