The most optimistic award goes to the dog in our neighborhood who barks at airplanes. I know the little critter is convinced that he’s keeping those big metal birds from stealing his kibble. The unexpected tv moment award goes to Heroes for finally explaining the stolen socks from the first episode. Until then, I thought […]
Let’s just pretend this is a post about what is right and wrong with Knoxville. Imagine it is insightful and edgy. I used words with more than two syllables and lots of economic, education and cultural references in my pretend post today. It irritates you and you agree with it all at once. Doesn’t everyone […]
My desktop went haywire last week and I spent most of the week relegated to my cell phone during the day and the laptop late at night. Every day I would mentally compose posts and every night I would sit down with the laptop in our bedroom and stare at the blank screen. I would […]
Girl 1: “OMG, I couldn’t leave the house to come here until I changed my Facebook status to really, really cold.” Girl 2: “I know! I saw it and changed my status to colder than you are.” Girl 3: “Ohhh, now I have to go back home to change my status.”
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Overheard in the high school band room: “My mother blogs everything. You might find yourself on the Internet.” Overheard through child’s bedroom door: Tween reading my blog out loud to his friend, followed by, “My family is funny.” There are mountains of blogs detailing the adventures of pregnancy and parenting UNTIL those children become teens. […]
In my previous life, I orchestrated an annual event at the zoo in May. The sponsors and exhibitors would give up a Saturday to the event. I always felt like they deserved more thanks than they were given since without them, the event would have been hollow. Instead of anything close to adequate praise, they […]
While we’ve been distractedly preparing for the zombie invasion, the Reavers have been walking among us. Okay, maybe they aren’t Reavers, but they are certainly not the same as you and I. Example number one – I left my favorite store and sat in my parking space messing with the phone and radio before I […]
Sunday – After what shall forever be known as the week of a zillion hysterical Tweets, Sarah, Missy and I piled into a Saturn VUE and drove from Knoxville to DC. Okay, we drove to Bethesda, but that’s like DC’s version of Farragut. Actually, the only thing Farragut and Bethesda have in common is that […]
I received very kind comments and a couple of extremely insightful e-mails in response to my fretting about Noah. Thank you. I used your thoughts to work out a short term plan as well as a big goal for high school. Your e-mails were overly polite about the fact that after six years of blogging, […]