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There are two things you should know about me: 1. I’ll read just about anything I can get my hands on. 2. I’m rarely at home when I [...]

Our household consists of one grown woman, one grown man, one four year old girl, and one nine year old boy.
Finding something that the four of us can do together is… let’s say… tricky.
My son, for example, loves the Monopoly board game.  My daughter can’t add or subtract or sit still for a four hour [...]

Listen, I don’t subscribe to the idea that there are girl things and boy things.  While I may be what is typically called a “girly girl”, it’s by choice and not genetic shackling.
If my kids want to play with dolls, trucks or lab rats, I don’t care, as long as I don’t step on it [...]

My friend Deanna sent me an instant message last week to see how I was doing.  I assured her that I was, still, doing fantastically awful.
And then she did the most annoying thing that people always do when they know you are feeling awful.
She recommended a book to me.
I don’t know why I didn’t punch [...]

I was complaining on twitter the other day about being in a bad mood and annoyed at people in general.
I received a direct message from a local PR rep asking if she could perk me up with Disney On Ice tickets to giveaway.
I asked her if I could “give them away” to my two kids [...]

A friend of mine recently mentioned that carrying a laptop through an airport is much easier with a laptop backpack, as opposed to a shoulder bag.  I’m headed for Chicago next week for the BlogHer conference and had kind of been dreading hauling my laptop around for four days.
The laptop backpack seemed like the perfect [...]

I’ll admit that I was hesitant to watch the first Transformers movie when it came out a couple years ago.
I’m not a huge fan of action movies and ginormous killer robots wouldn’t normally be my thing.
But I watched it – and I loved it.
In fact, I loved it so much that I was actually excited [...]

I’ve recently developed an obsession with watching TV series on DVD.
I love that there are no commercials, which means I can watch a 30 minute show in about 20 minutes or an hour long episode in about 45 minutes.  Never mind what that says about how much programming we’re actually getting on TV these days. [...]

Like many personal bloggers, I carry with me a secret dream.
Some day, somehow, someone will stumble upon my blog and be blown away by my writing and say “hey, lady, you should write a book.  Here’s thousands of dollars in advance.  Go to it!”
That sounds realistic, right?
OK, maybe not.  Maybe it requires a little more [...]

The written word has always been a source of comfort and inspiration for me.  Here are 13 books that have had an impact on my life.
13 Books That You Should Read.  Again.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight–how to get from shore to food and back again”. [...]