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Do you feel that you know me?

At all? Just a little?

What if I did something weird, or out of character, or something that you considered as mean or wrong? Would you immediately unsubscribe? Would you give me the benefit of the doubt?

Continue reading “Oops. I Accidentally Got Involved In a Blogging War” »

It was obvious to me, right from the start, that blogging is highly addictive. When I read about bloggers who put in 70 hours per week, work so hard that they forget to drink, and sometimes even drop dead, I promised myself that “real life” would always come first.

Continue reading “Are Bloggers Allowed To Have A Life?” »

Fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too
–John Mayer, Daughters

Continue reading “A Letter to My Dad” »

I’ve been interviwed by Christina over at Tivate.com and boy do I feel special now.

Continue reading “My 15 Minutes of Fame Over At Tivate.com” »

Sometime this month, I will turn 37.

After much deliberation, I decided to avoid disclosing the exact date, since a person’s date of birth is one of the pieces of info used by identity thieves to perform identity theft. So there. I may be a bit on the paranoid side here, but I am exercising some out-of-character internet caution.

Back to being 37.

You know, I could take the gray hairs and crow’s feet in stride. Really. It’s not that. I’m just as vain as anyone else, if not more so, but this is a deeper issue. These are just symptoms of a scary process that’s going on inside of me.

I am growing older.

Continue reading “Not Sure I Am Ready To Be 37” »

I was seriously dismayed last night, when a waitress told me with a smile, “you should order dessert, sweetie. You look like an anorexic“.

This is not the first time someone has referred to me as an anorexic, and frankly, I am fed up with that.

You see, this poor woman is anorexic:

Continue reading “Please Use Discretion Prior To Slapping The Term “Anorexic” On People” »

Regardless of what you do, or what happens to you, I will always love you. There is nothing that you can do to make me stop loving you. Even if you mess up terribly, I will still be there for you.

I will always be grateful to my mom for saying this. I didn’t mess up too badly. I guess I’m a conformist. But those few little messes that did happen, proved that she had meant what she said.

Continue reading “A Mother’s Unconditional Love” »

I don’t know. I might, at some future point. But right now, I am still hesitant about exposing too much of my children’s lives.

It’s not safety that I’m concerned about. The potential exposure to non-local lunatics does not endanger children, in my opinion. I worry because my kids have no control over this exposure. Even if I asked their permission to write about them, and post their pictures on my website, and they gave it to me, would that permission really count? They are 6 and 8. They are loyal and loving and eager to please. They are not in a position to truly be aware of, and consider, all the pros and cons of online exposure.

Continue reading “Why Won’t You Post Photos of Your Kids?” »

Spring and early summer is my favorite time of year, because my garden fills with beautiful, blooming, colorful roses.

Continue reading “Best Shot Monday: My Roses Are Blooming!” »

Today commemorates the Nazis’ highly organized effort to rid the world of its entire Jewish population.

They managed to rid the world of most of its European Jews: six million Jews were gassed, shot or died in the ghettos and in concentration camps before the Nazis were stopped in 1945.

One would think that the lessons supposedly learned from the Holocaust would ensure that the world would not tolerate another genocide, but the latter part of the twentieth century proved that genocides were still possible and that the world was not quick to intervene and bring an end to them.

Continue reading “Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day” »