This, That, and the Mother Thing

I'm reading Rachel Held Evan's book, Searching for Sunday, and part of her awakening as a Christian is understanding how much of the...

Y'all.  I have become the Pied Piper of perimenopause, scaring the bejeesus out of all the women younger than I am by leading them down ...

I sent this in as an OpEd to our local paper.  It wasn't picked up.  And I can understand why.  It was really time delimited (the week a...

In all my free time, I'd really like to write a book about the Joys of the change of life, with the actual working title of What To Expe...

Last week, I was providing academic insight for an article coming out on "mommy blogging."  I'll post the link when it comes o...

I am updating and reposting my post from March 20 here . The updates: My US House Representative Alma Adams has reached out twice to A...

For Spring break , I took a class of 10 University undergraduates and 1 Graduate student to Prague I also took my 13 year-old son, so he cou...

In December, we let Patches go. He was 16 years old (maybe 17) and could not stand up or walk any more.  We carried him up the stairs, ...

Y'all. This summer, we started decluttering the house .  We're following the " KonMari " method, in which we go through...

It has been a really tough semester. Our department on campus lost a colleague and a friend in a senseless act.  It is not possible for me...

(((Sweet peas on toast*. I started this last week and have been dying to try to keep up with everything I need to do.  Maybe this is part of...

The Birth Story Part 2:    Ready or Not, Here comes the Bun We left the hospital at   10:15.    My water broke at   11:00, and we were ...