Lost is reminiscing today, so I’ll add a few of my own memories. I remember SNL when it was funny and the bands really rocked. I remember Pong and the fear that it would burn an image onto your screen. I remember floppy disks. I remember spending hours taping songs off the radio to create […]
My 2-year-old is either schizophrenic or very imaginative. We have purple monsters living in our trees and she keeps seeing spiders. She also catches things in the air and walks around with her hands tightly cupped holding her invisible catch. “I got it.”
I’ve been surfing Blog Explosion and I have just one question. What is everyone going to blog about after the election? Sure, for a few weeks we’ll shout about the winners and losers, but what then?
Bandaids have magic power over my children. They make the ouch go away instantly. Grownups need more bandaids.
On Friday Noah’s soccer team got stomped. Sarah had a lock-in at the YMCA and we were supposed to pick her up at 7 on Saturday morning but we overslept and Sarah had to call us at 7:30. “Umm, is anyone gonna pick me up?” Major parental guilt. Saturday’s scout meeting was supposed to be […]
Happy Birthday Doug!
Frightening or funny? Last summer I looked out the back window and saw three boys, standing on the edge of the trampoline with three streams arching out before them. I should have known I was in trouble with this child when he was three-years-old and I caught him peeing in the cat’s litterbox.
About 60 years ago, my father was adopted to my grandparents through a Memphis, TN adoption agency. My grandparents had nothing but praise for the “good, Christian woman who was doing God’s work putting babies where they belong”. The agency was The TN Children’s Society Home and it was run by Georgia Tann. Ms. Tann […]
Both my father and her sister were adopted by my grandparents. Their stories are similar, but different. I’ll tell my aunt’s story first, so that tomorrow my father’s will be at the top of the blog and I’ll worry less about offending someone with his story than I do with hers. My grandparents had a […]
As I child, there were a few foods I was subjected to almost every week. My mother claimed that it was because they were easy to prepare and inexpensive but I know it was for another reason. There were about half a dozen foods that my grandfather forbid my grandmother to serve and yet we […]