You could be traveling today. Whether it’s a short hop or a longer journey, you won’t have any trouble with snarled traffic or interminable flight delays. You have high hopes for this trip, either from a personal or professional standpoint, and the beginning is both pleasant and auspicious. Listen to a good book or tape […]

Explain freezing rain to me. Seriously. Why isn’t it snow? If it’s cold enough to instantly freeze to the pavement, why isn’t it cold enough to make the damned rain drops into snowflakes? There’s nothing I hate more about winter in Minnesota than the freezing rain. It makes driving extra nerve-wracking and by the time […]

While sitting at my desk, legs cramping from inactivity, I am somehow continually able to block out the fact that my job is incredibly dull. Day after day. Poor ergonomics and mind-numbing tedium. But I am generally unaware of how severe it really is. The only thing that brings this to light is the occasional […]

While sitting down for my morning SlimFast, I received the following email from my lovely mother…
Pet peeve of the day: there is someone who does a major poo first thing every morning (always before 8:00). It’s the same toidy, the same residue. What is really irksome is that she could get rid of it with […]

As I re-discover every year, there are two schools of Santa gifting. The wrappers and the non-wrappers. The wrappers do not understand how someone could give a child an unwrapped gift. And the non-wrappers do not understand how people can think that a child really cares about the wrap at all.
I personally came from a […]

Look what I found mommacita! The Rake has a blog.
Enjoy!

Or 5 days.
I’ll be on hiatus until next week while I celebrate an event 13 years in the making…my graduation from college! In keeping with the new family tradition, I will be graduating at the age of 31. As did my father. And my brother. And my cousin. And the […]