These are the most recent flowers my partner brought home with the groceries, photographed by my sweet and talented daughter.
The Animals Won
Katie is a bit too old to be a Steve Irwin fan, so we were spared most of that craze. Not all of it, of course, since we don’t live in a media blackout and we are exposed to the…
Quote of the Day, Happy Half-Hour
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher, quoted in The Change Your Life Challenge by Brooke Noel. One of Noel’s suggestions is to have a regular “happy…
In Dallas? Wear your seat belt!
Being hauled out of school in handcuffs because of a $50 seat-belt ticket was bad enough for Lancaster High School music teacher Theresa Dobbs. She had no idea what was yet to come. That seat belt ticket — the only…
Poetry: To be of use
On a much, much better note…this settles it. Marge Piercy’s life work has to go on my wish list. To be of use –Marge Piercy From Circles on the Water The people I love the best jump into work head…
Maybe it’s just me
But does anybody else think it’s just a bit tacky for my mother to want me to come over and celebrate my father and brother’s birthdays when I can’t even remember how many years it’s been since they’ve celebrated mine…
Empowered by a microphone
I gave myself a gift today: a headset with my very own microphone for the podcast. It isn’t as fancy as the one that I was using, which is my partner’s Very Nice (read: intimidating) microphone. That one, though, sits…
Get Well Soon… or Be Eternally Damned!
Great cartoon from Ragged Edge. I want to get that notepad printed up! The magazine also has an excellent blog and some very good articles. I just finished reading their spotlight on invisible disabilities, which linked to the cartoon. There’s…
Dragon Con, Weekend Planning, and Back to School
I won’t be going to Dragon Con unless a ticket (or pass—hey, I’m willing to do panels, ya know) falls out of the air. Sam will be running games and the girl will be working the con, so they both…
Consideration for ourselves, changes in podcast format
It seems that many of us who suffer from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are perfectionists. I know that I am. One of fibromyalgia’s harder lessons has been pacing myself and adjusting to changing (but always lower than before) energy levels…