things that have changed since the last time i blogged (and published. because, oh, the posts i have started but…not published.): my oldest spent 11 weeks away from me. she lived. so did i. i have learned much about what it means to parent a college student. and how very little control i have over […]

i have lots of words in my head. thoughts and thoughts and thoughts. all of the hard thoughts. angry thoughts and irritated thoughts and i promise there is love inside there too, but oh. my. GOSH. i’ve had it. it’s days like today when i look around and see all of the controversy and the […]

good lord, i’m tired. yesterday, Reasa did science experiments. she smashed ice with a hammer, and calibrated a thermometer with her denatured alcohol burner. it was like…school. i splattered a cake with neon royal icing. then i made ganache. and poured it over boston cream pie. then covered it with fondant. and stacked it with […]

i am facing some things in my life right now. frankly, they suck. sometimes i feel like i’ve had a heck of a lot of sucky things thrown at me over a pretty short span of my life. some of those “things” are situations. predicaments. attitudes. some of those “things” are people. no matter what […]

as in “i am 41.” for about 12 hours now. i had big goals for my challenge this year…because i’ve decided that my 41st year is the one when i will go back to school. i will figure out how to fund my master’s degree in Holistic Nutrition (hopefully from Hawthorn University in CA (so if you […]

she had surgery today. it was relatively minor, but required general anesthesia and hydrocodone follow-up. it was significant enough that i had to put her in the hands of medical professionals i have never met for several hours, had to wait patiently while she went through 45 minutes of surgery and an hour and a […]