…okay, I’m exaggerating. But those who know me know that I’m fairly healthy. But when I do get sick? I get unbelievably sick. I’m sure that it’s because I push my body fairly hard with my daily life, so when I get sick, my body just puts up the white flag right away. This would…
How search engines actually work.
This post is prompted by an “editorial” piece from PopEater, where the author was shocked that when he searched for Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman that it took ages to get past links that weren’t about their love scene in Black Swan. Whining about how difficult it was to find anything that wasn’t about the…
Children shouldn’t live in a bubble.
Every day I look at the BlogHer ad bar in the sidebar of my site to see if any of my blog posts are linked. And then I click on the post titles I find interesting. So when I saw “Why do we freak out about Bratz, but not violent video games?” I was intrigued….
Inevitability…
I remember flipping through my mom’s high school yearbook when I was a kid and saw all the inscriptions from friends that said that they’d keep in touch, and friends forever. These were people that I’d never heard of, so I knew that high school friendships didn’t always survive graduation. I had a best friend…
The Power of Social Networking
Wow, last week was a slow blogging week. Not intentional, I assure you. As I blogged, the little guy had a rough week, which meant that I had less computer time and mostly wanted to go straight to bed as soon as they were in bed. He seems to be doing better- either that or…
How rude!
Yesterday, I mentioned that I’m going through a bit of a trying time with the Little Kidlet. It’s a little like Jekyll and Hyde- he’s mild mannered Mister Mister or the screaming, limp bodied Mister Monster (nickname courtesy of TheBoy). My back, which was injured during my tenure at Disneyland and has never quite gotten…
The Terrible Threes
I remember when the oldest kidlet was just hitting 2. I expressed concern about his tantrums to my mom. Okay, I was whining about how tantrums and worried that the temper he’d inherited from both TheBoy and myself was now coming back to bite me in the ass. My mom told me this- “No matter…
Pumpkin Cheesecake
You know, it isn’t very often that I see a recipe, say that I’m going to make it and then actually make it. I am lazy. I’ll bookmark recipes and never get around to them. So in a week where the temperature suddenly spiked to 95 degrees and I had a cranky 3 year old,…
Cooks Source: How not to run a magazine
If you’re plugged into the blogosphere… odds are you’ve heard about Monica Gaudio and her run in with Cooks Source , a free magazine for distribution in the New England area. A friend contacted her about an article she’d written for it called “As American as Apple Pie – Isn’t” wondering how she’d gotten published….
This was Halloween.
This is a tale of half-hearted Halloweens and cat pee. My kids are at that stage where they’re just starting to get Halloween. The little one is a little scare of decorations, but the older one is embracing all of that. We’d had big plans for the weekend. We were going to a family Halloween…