Last week was all about foreign places I’d like to visit. This week is: Thirteen Domestic Places I’d Like to See Before I Die Anchorage, Alaska New Orleans, Louisiana San Juan, Puerto Rico Vieques, Puerto Rico Napa Valley Little Big Horn Honolulu, Hawaii The Grand Canyon The Painted Desert, New Mexico The Rockies in Colorado San Francisco,...

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For what seems like the bazillionth time, Oldest Son’s girlfriend kicked him out last Thursday and he moved home. There are some things that are vastly different this time around: 1. He had a new job within 24 hrs. (WOW!) 2. He is actually ignoring his phone more than he’s not when it’s the girlfriend calling to continue the drama. (DOUBLE WOW!) 3....

Me and mine (from left to right: PDD, Second Son, Oldest Son) taken at my parents’ house yesterday afternoon. (I never pass up an opportunity to get impromptu family pics of my brood. Already, it’s getting difficult to get them all together in one spot.) My younger sister and her family – in Oklahoma on vacation this week (they live in...

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Thirteen Foreign Places I’d Like to See Before I Die Paris, France Athens, Greece Venice, Italy Amsterdam, Netherlands Sydney, Australia Dublin, Ireland London, England Havana, Cuba Jerusalem, Israel Cairo, Egypt The Kalahari Desert (where the Meerkats live!) Rio de Janero, Brazil Acapulco, Mexico Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The purpose of the meme...

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Since I fought the Monday but the Monday won, I figured today would have no choice but to be better. Right? Kamikaze Caller Today started off with a revealing conversation with New Man who crawled back out of the woodwork a week ago. He had disappeared for a couple of weeks, until I saw him at football practice a week ago Friday. And what does he say to me?...

Ya know – there are days we should just follow the advice of that little voice we hear and throw the covers back over our heads and stay in bed – and today feels like one of them! Oy! Even as I sit here typing this, I realize I’m still carrying around $4,655 in checks and cash that I tried twice to go deposit in the bank. Shit. Yeah, it’s...

It never ceases to amaze me how silly teenagers can be. Second Son and his friends had been outside running around in the rain. When they came in, they decided to rinse the grass off their feet in the bathtub and since they were all wet already, they just had a...