Knocking one out of the park

I found Shakespeare’s Sister through this at Evil Mommy’s. Nothing seems to matter to Americans until it directly affects them, and, by then, it’s almost always too late. It hurts, because it’s true. Read the whole thing. Then, go visit Mark, who sparked the entry, here’s a tidbit: The death knell for our secular, balanced-power […]

How to quickly make daddy crazy

I’m home with a sick child, who of course isn’t acting very sick. She is showing off her mad skillz by putting on a Barney tape in her bedroom and putting Barney on Tivo in the family room (which are something like ten feet away from each other) It’s like listening to somebody sing “Row […]

Running at the keyboard

Another of my sporadic updates on being fat and trying to be not so fat. Let’s see. I ran my first (and only) 5K on the 19th. Since then, I’ve embarked on something called the One Hour Runner plan. Here it is in a nutshell: build my running time up, without getting injured, so that […]