This has been a really sad week, news-wise. From the despicable depths our nation’s leaders are sinking to in order to win an election to the suicide of Tyler Clementi, which will undoubtedly ruin many lives connected to the whole sordid affair, it seems like things on earth are spiraling downward. So I’ve decided to [...]

It occurred to me today that perhaps I should explain the quote that appears at the top of my new-and-improved (thanks to the Ogre) blog. On the one hand, it doesn’t need much explanation. It’s a few lines from one of the most amazing poems ever written in the English language, “Love Calls Us to [...]

I haven’t had much time to post lately, and I won’t have much to post next week either, so I stole borrowed an idea from Bearing and decided to give you a week of re-runs. Since my blog is now a little over a year old, I figured I probably have enough material to get away with this. I [...]

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Well, it’s done. The first post-partum run. In what is quickly becoming a biennial rite of torture, this morning I  managed to pant and grimace my way through a mile run (interspersed with about a mile of walking, in case you were too impressed). In the last nine months, here are some things I’ve forgotten [...]

Happy Sunday, guys! I love Sundays. We’re making molasses-spice cookies after Mass today to spite the desert and it’s stupid 103 degree weather. Some of you have been asking for an update on Liam and the health department debacle, so here it is. Liam is much better. He’s gone two days without a coughing fit, [...]

As you can see, we’re doing a little maintenance work on my blog. That is, the Ogre is doing the maintenance work while I stand around and ask questions like, “What is an RSS feed?” That explanation took twenty minutes. I’m not computer-savvy. But the real problem we’re having is with the blog title and [...]

Ahhh, sweet Friday. Here in the godforsaken desert, it’s 69 degrees right now! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never mind that it’s supposed to be 101 tomorrow, it’s 69 degrees right now! So naturally, I’m flipping through all my favorite stew recipes, gearing myself up for the return of fall. I love fall. I think it’s my favorite cooking [...]

Normally I’m not one for writing about my day-to-day life unless I feel there is some purpose or larger lesson to be gained from the story. But today was such a day that I feel the need to vomit my indignation into the blogosphere, so fair warning: there will be no moral to this story. [...]

I really don’t. Don’t get me wrong, I think my kids are very, very cute. Certainly their unique personalities and funny little quirks make them all the more endearing to me, rendering them cuter, perhaps, in my eyes than in other people’s. However, I also have some objective grasp on reality which allows me to [...]