I’m taking a quick break to recharge, relax, and refill my well of ideas. Never fear; I’ll be back on Tuesday with more of the good stuff you come to read including rants about why Metro sucks for families, books C really likes and recipies for the kind of food that my husband and I [...]

Now this is easy don’t you think? 4.) Open letter to a celebrity. I’m actually going to change it up a little and write some very short messages to a number of celebrities that only merit a text message, not a full-on letter. Dear David Hasslehoff: Roasts won’t help. Tangos won’t help. Spandex pants REALLY [...]

Betcha didn’t know that’s the name of the song they play at the Preakness! And that the tune is “O Tannebaum”! See! This blog can be educational. Also? I’ve been to all three races of the Triple Crown and Kentucky is the only one where people cry during the song they play before the race. [...]

So I’ve been trying to get more fabulous. You can read all about it here. And I have succeeded if by “success” you mean “failure”. Let’s re-cap, shall we? Exercise: For about three weeks I was doing a good job of loading episodes of True Blood onto my iPhone and trekking down to the gym [...]

I didn’t marry young. As a result I saw some of the world and kept company with an assortment of people in my younger days. There were a lot of laughs then and some tears. As anyone who loved before can tell you, my mind is now a puppet theatre of memories, cast with walking [...]

47 years ago today, a great man said great things. Here they are and thank you Dr. King. *** “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose [...]

Jenny the Broke Foodie and I go waaaayyyyyy back. I think we were in our teens when we met. We were certainly in college. She did not cook in those days. Or maybe she did but I was too drunk to notice. Hard to say. College was like that. Also, she and I were usually [...]

Mama Kat s leading me down memory lane this week. 1.) Your childhood neighborhood. I could on on forever. My childhood neighborhood was idyllic. Leafy suburban streets, walking distance to one of the top high schools in the state, if not the nation. Neighbors who all knew each other and barbequed together in the summer. [...]

I have, in recent months, developed an unhealthy relationship with HGTV. It started out innocently enough when my sister called me one night to tell me that the episode of House Hunters she was watching was taking place in my neighborhood. We flipped it on and, lo and behold, the house hunter was an acquaintance [...]

This week is teacher development week at C’s daycare so the whole family is taking a break for the week. The need for a break has been evident as the two adults inthe family have been taking almost as many naps as the resident toddler. The Great Guy I Married is still recovering from jet [...]