Please stop using good songs for commercials. Are ‘The Who’ really that badly in need of money? Peter Gabriel? Can’t you use up the one hit wonders before you start in on the classics?

I had one last entry in the Smoky Mountains facts contest. Maxs’ Mind Warp reports: according to the East Tennessee History Book of Blountville TN. Jr. High School, there are absolutely no poisonous water snakes of any kind native to Tennessee! However in reality, when considering the migration of different species of animals and reptiles […]

My life is not the carefully manipulated plots that Christoff wrote for Truman. I live in Roger Rabbit’s ToonTown. When I drive the car with the broken fuel line around town I can practically see the long Wiley Coyote fuse racing to catch up with the car. When I get the tree half-way lit and […]

Sarah asked me to mail a letter but I’m a bad Mommy, so I read it instead. Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I baby-sit my sister all the time and I do all my homework. There are 2 really special things I want this year and I know they’re hard to […]

Thanks to everyone in Tommy’s fan club’s help, we have his Christmas present! You guys are the best! Noah had to have some dental work today and when I returned him to school his mouth was still bleeding (Von Willebrands). I would like to have brought him home to let him heal but quite honestly […]

I need your help. I ignored something when it was on the store shelves last week because I didn’t have the money and now it is gone from not just the store shelves, but the online stores. If anyone knows where I can order a Nintendo DS that will arrive before Christmas, PLEASE let me […]

Once upon a time there was a mother. The mother was very distressed about the laundry pile that grew bigger no matter how hard she tried to make it smaller. The added stress of constant dirty dishes and general household disarray compounded by parenting, holiday decorating, crafting and shopping on a shoestring made the once […]

The night before Thanksgiving my mother stayed up late cooking. Thanksgiving morning she got up early to finish the cooking and then she and my father took Noah to pick up my grandmother from the nursing home. Every time she plans on taking her mother out for something, a melodrama ensues that usually ends with […]

Wednesday a tree fell down and blocked off our cove. I called Tommy’s bus driver and told him it would be okay to let Tommy walk home from the cove entrance. Apparently I wasn’t specific enough. The bus driver stopped and said “You’re on your own.” Tommy hopped off the bus and immediately crawled under […]