When you find yourself sitting on the kitchen floor washing down a mouthful of hot dogs with a bowl of Coca Pebbles with no other thought than "OK SUGAR NEXT" instead of the rational thought "Ew ( Read more... )

How many slams in an old screen door?
     Depends on how loud you shut it.
How many slices in a bread?
     Depends on how thin you cut it.
How much good inside a day?
     Depends on how good you live 'em.
How much love inside a friend?
     Depends on how much you give 'em.

--Shel Silverstein

Does everyone have to call at the same time??

I am a climbing wall, horse, piggy-back-ride giver. Toehold, swing, ball player. Remote control. Chock Milk pourer and mixer. I tried locking myself in the bathroom to ahve a conversation but she figured out the lock.

I wanted a smart kid. THis is my own fault.

Can we go back to camp?

Wonder what in the hell I was thinking when I wrote that note?

Bad idea:

Things not to discuss with patrons if you are a waiter at a resort:

1. Politics.

2. Race Relations in a country that you have never even visited.

3. George Bush.

4. How my economy trashed your economy...when I'm spending a crapload of money in your country...and in fact, tipped you quite nicely the last time you were my waiter.

How I missed you while I was away. Your cheap chocolate waxiness like no other, melting into lumps in my mouth. I left you stuffed in a bag with all the other chocolates while I jetted off to exotic locales, lounged on beaches, basked in the sun. Flirted with some foreign brand that promised flavor in the roll of a German accent. And then those ( Read more... )

Every winter I look out at the frozen pond and wonder if this is the year someone slips through the ice...a someone being one of the Labradors. I wonder how I will get him out (we have two; both boys), if I will fall in as I try, if he will fall in one night when we let him out...all that stuff. Today we wandered out and  I watched as each one of ( Read more... )

I have said before that I have never been so wholly moved to violence than I have when someone messes with my kid. And even still I find I am on a whole new level now ( Read more... )

....Rustmon started it.