Does anyone elsestill write a Friday Haiku?I can not find them Have they just grown bored?or just intimidated by my own brilliance? the last haiku-erI feel I have a dutyto bring you haiku Read more

Due to some medical issues I’ve been having lately, I’ve been ordered by the doctor to lose some weight and avoid constipation as if my life depended on it. It doesn’t, but she wants me to pretend that it does. Whatever. The bad part is the part where she told me to restrict my diet to 1200 calories a day and drink a glass of prune juice every morning. Prune juice is vile. I know because I’ve tried every brand... Read more

I’ve decided to throw in the towel and publicly declare that I can’t teach my 7 year old to read. Here goes…ahem….”I am the Mom. I homeschool my children, but I give up. I can’t teach #3 to read. Can someone help me, please?” Thanks. I feel better. 2 years. 7 reading programs. 4 phonics programs. He still can’t read C-A-T. He can spell it, and he can write it, but he can’t read it. I took him to a... Read more

At just the point in time when you get tired of hearing people complain about the USCCB and the non-stop griping from some in the Catholic blogosphere, there comes a story which makes your heart leap for joy. I found one of those rare pearls this morning. It seems the Catholics in Kosovo are able to come out of hiding after centuries of life in the shadows. The men appeared to be good Muslims during the day (the women were... Read more

by LarryD at Acts of the Apostasy because I totally deserve it! Thanks, LarryD! I like your blog, too! Now the conditions. First: complete the One-Word Meme.1. Where is your cell phone? desk2. Where is your significant other? work3. Your hair color? striped (brown and gray)4. Your mother? devoted5. Your father? bald6. Your favorite thing? time7. Your dream last night? non-existent (you try and sleep with a sick husband and 3 sick children) 8. Your dream/goal? politics9. The room you’re... Read more

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Joe Biden and TV new anchor Katie Couric for illustrating so perfectly what is wrong with the American educational system. Biden was speaking to Katie Couric, that fair and balanced reporter, about the current financial situation when he said “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.'”... Read more

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Read more

A Friday haikubetter late than not at alla mental workout Read more

This has been a long hard week, and I am so glad to see it end. We had company for a week, they’re great, but it was exhausting trying not to debate my Evangelical minister in training brother. We go round and round and never convince each other. It wouldn’t be a big deal except he believes I’m going to hell and that I’m a pagan, and tells me so. Even if he didn’t say it, I’d know he felt... Read more

My 11 year old found her little sister pouting in their room yesterday. Said #1 to #4 “Are you sad today?” Said #4, “Yes” With sarcasm, “Are you feeling unloved?” #4 sits upright and with a shocked tone retorts “I’m #4. Everybody loves me.” Well, duh. Read more