Ah, those annoyances that crawl across your legs like an army of fire ants...I went onto the Towson U. site to check my schedule only to find out that it had never gone through in the fist place (I blame kid distraction) so I redid it only to find out that I have a flarking immunization hold on my account. Since the medical records of this 36 year ( Read more... )

Nothing says hell quite like the aged, mildewy auditorium of an old Catholic school. The kind with a tan and brown linloeum-squared floor and flickering fluorescent light fixtures. The advanced bands from six different schools are combining for a performance at a local mall during Catholic Schools Week at the end of the month. Rehearsals are ( Read more... )

I guess I should be happy that she's been sleeping through the night as of late. What I'm not happy about is that she refuses to go to sleep until sometime near eleven, when I'm ready to pass out myself. I really would like some adult time, alone, with my husband ( Read more... )

So the girl picks up a mini Barbie (past Happy Meal bounty) and surveys her silver sprayed-on halter top and pink hiphuggers. "Mama, I see her belly button. Do YOU ever wear clothes like this sometimes?"

Hell, no. Barbie doesn't have a belly. Barbie doesn't have stretchmarks.

Wayyyy back at the end of December 1995, I was a concierge at a fancy Baltimore Inner Harbor hotel. Occupancy rate at that time of year runs around, oh, 15-20%. Needless to say, there wasn’t much for me to do. So I read the papers at my desk. Specifically, the CityPaper. I went through the letters to the editor, perused the year-in-review ( Read more... )

So here we are in chilly Plattsburgh, NY, located just a bit less than an hour's drive south of Montreal. Our minivan pulled into the driveway of my in-laws' Victorian last night at about 7 p.m ( Read more... )

It's beginning to look a lot like...spring? It was 65 degrees here in Baltimore. I went out in a long sleeve t-shirt and no jacket to finish up some last minute gift-gathering ( Read more... )

Thanks to Carvegirl and her guy, we have a new family obsession: making magnets. They had a lovely winter solstice gathering Saturday night. It was a great group: good conversation and a fab vegan layout. I felt all little kid excited when I saw their art room. Wow. There was a table full of gifts for the party-goers! Sculpey finger puppets ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm thinking about putting together a food-related zine. I was at Atomic Books a couple of weeks ago, talking to Rachel. She said "do *you* put out a zine?" And I felt like that was an outside prod. I've been thinking about it for a long time, but obviously I haven't gotten it together ( Read more... )

Oh, yes...the backwards inside-out pajamas worked all too well. We had about six inches of snow Friday morning, but then that was topped by freezing rain, and more rain. It was slushy and mucky ( Read more... )