I’m very proud to announce that I will now be having a weekly column on the Washington Times Communities Website! The column will be called So Here’s the Thing and it launched today! This will be a place where I talk about my new adventures as a stay at home mom plus more of my [...]

So. (Yes. I do actually begin sentences that I speak aloud by saying “So” emphatically then pausing for effect. Don’t you wish you were my friend?) So. I have declared my personal independence. From my job. I turned in my notice last week and now I’m winding my way through a last few weeks of [...]

I just saw this quote from Newt Gingrich and it’s bothering me. “Obama is the most serious radical threat to traditional America ever to occupy the White House.” – Newt Gingrich, quoted in a new book, Subversion Inc., as reported by the American Spectator. Ok, usually, I have to give a lot of credit to [...]

I have the worst case of writer’s block. It’s like the sections of my brain given over to words have been filled with oatmeal instead of ideas. I can’t get into reading anything either because anything having to do with words is such a mental slog.  I keep waiting for everything to shake loose so [...]

The head football coach of my graduate school alma mater has resigned in disgrace. Jim Tressel tendered his resignation to the Ohio State University this week after investigation by the NCAA and penalities from the school for covering up misconduct by several players. The story is simple in its facts but complicated in its implications. [...]

Everyone and their brother is bitching about the price of gas these days. I’ve heard a bunch of theories for why gas is as expensive as it is. It’s Obama’s fault for bombing Libya. It’s Obama’s fault for not allowing new US drilling. It’s Obama’s fault for wearing a yellow tie that one time. It’s [...]

So, the other night I saw a tweet that said something about unfollowing someone because their avatar was ugly. It was a startlingly unnecessary sentiment, particularly coming from an adult.  I clicked over to the person’s timeline to see what her story was and to decide if I wanted to keep following a person who [...]

Summer is coming. At least, I think it is. Every time it seems like summer is really coming it darts away, leaving cold and rain in its wake while it hides someplace and giggles at all of us for cursing and stomping through cold puddles int he open-toed shoes we insist on wearing because it’s [...]

On September 11, 2001, I was in Columbus, OH. I had moved there a week before to start graduate school. I knew no one yet and was planning to spend that weekend in Virginia with friends. I was getting a late start that morning and had sat down to check my email when a friend [...]

4:59am: If I’d had to get up this early for my own wedding, I’d still be single… 5:00: I wish I had a hat. It would look awesome with my jammies. 5:01: FYI, I’m watching this on Public Television. To avoid the ads and also because there is a not a single newscaster on any [...]