Life
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On Time and More of It
For those of you who don’t know, I was recently “restructured” out of a job. Remember my lovely job in downtown Trenton? (I posted about Trenton here and here). Well, it is no more. On one hand, this is not terrible. I wasn’t thrilled with the job anyway and financially and emotionally, it made sense… Continue reading
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AHH, the House is on Fire! Or, L’Eggo my Eggo!
From the Daily Post’s Daily Prompt: Your home is on fire. Grab five items (assume all people and animals are safe). What did you grab? My MacBook (wouldn’t want it to melt with my masterpieces living inside). My cell phone (to call 911 and so kids can watch Netflix at shelter/hotel). Our coats (it’s friggin… Continue reading
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Snow Day Time Lapse
Time it takes to find appropriate clothing for two boys on blizzard days: 45 minutes. Amount of time spent putting said clothes on boys: 15 minutes. Size of snowsuit that you are cramming your nine-year-old into: 6/7. Time it takes for little one to decide he has to pee after said clothes are in place:… Continue reading
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My Littlest Artist
My nine-year-old, lovingly referred to as “M.” on this blog, recently took a liking to art. The other day, we sat together with a pile of paper and he drew for awhile, then I gave him suggestions and he drew some more. Here are some of his pictures: This one looks like an angry dude… Continue reading
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Daily Prompt: Re-springing Your Step
Today’s Daily Prompt from The Daily Post reads: Tell us about the last experience you had that left you feeling fresh, energized, and rejuvenated. What was it that had such a positive effect on you? I changed out a light switch today! I realize that’s not exactly rocket surgery or brain science. It’s nowhere near… Continue reading
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Reflections on the Eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
This past summer we traveled to Washington, D.C. for a short vacation and visited the MLK Memorial. You can read about the memorial on the National Park Service website by clicking here. The Memorial is breathtaking. The statue of Dr. King is huge, and his famous quotes are carved into the walls surrounding. Here is… Continue reading
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Minecraft, Comfits, and Wedding Strategy
The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt today is: Pick a random word and do a Google image search on it. Check out the eleventh picture it brings up. Write about whatever that image brings to mind. First, I googled “random word generator” which brought me to a site that produced a bullet list of ten words.… Continue reading
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Why I Have Grey Hair…
JC, my eleven-year-old, had a noun test today in his Language Arts class. He had to be able to identify different types of nouns: subjects, subject compliments, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of a preposition. Let me tell you, Blogtropolis. I write for a living and I couldn’t identify these nouns if my life… Continue reading
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Longing for Gravity- The Daily Prompt
I’m baaaaack. Here to stick my entire foot back in the water (instead of just my big toe) with a response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt. You are on a mission to Mars. Because of the length of of the journey, you will never be able to return to Earth. What about our blue… Continue reading
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“Happy My Teeth”
My eight-year-old son, M., has autism. For an autistic kid, M. is very in tune with other people’s feelings. He shows a great amount of empathy. He gets very upset when others are upset. For example, when our house gets loud or we’re arguing with M.’s older brother JC, M. gets very unsettled. He starts to… Continue reading
Waiting on a Word 
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