9 Grammar Rules I Just Can’t Seem to Keep Straight
Back in middle school, Mrs. Williams tried to force my young mind to shape itself around the proper use of language. But I was going to be a writer, dammit, and I didn’t need such conformity handed...
View Article9 Snowy Hints of the Erosion of Social Order
1. Stop signs, stop lights, one-way streets? Not on a snow day. 2. When people shovel their driveways and front walkways and pile all the snow onto the sidewalk or into the street. 3. Double parking....
View Article9 Points of Randomness
Sometimes my brain gets hold of a knot and jiggles and plays with it until it unwinds into revelation. Sometimes I just end up with more knots. Sometimes my brain just gets bored and I fall asleep....
View ArticleOut of the Mouth of The Joe
My son, Joe, stopped talking at age 2. We have no idea why. Hell, we didn’t even realize there was something wrong with that until we were talking to a nutritionist about a completely unrelated issue....
View ArticleTrading my ideals for a frog
I’m not quite a young mother. I was 34 when I had Joe. And until my husband and I decided we wanted one, I didn’t pay much attention to children. I did, however, have a lot of opinions about other...
View Article9 Signs that I am too distracted (or maybe just stupid; we don’t want to make...
Trying to use my car key fob to make the elevator arrive. The fact that I typed “make the elevator come” but then thought that sounded dirty and technologically unlikely so changed it to “arrive.”...
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