Tweet “Before You Click Your Heels Three Times…Is There Really No Place Like Home?” Last week, Oroneta tagged me with a meme about living the expatriate life. Now, I know Duluth is far North, we all talk like Canadians here … Continue reading
Tweet “Happy Bir– Oh, Hell, Whatever” (photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38626538@N00/401568720/) I’m turning forty on Sunday. My dad would have been seventy-two that same day, had he not passed away four years ago. Suddenly, four years ago, I stopped enjoying a shared birthday … Continue reading
Tweet “The HMS Discovery” Today during bathtime, Wee Niblet toodled around the tub for a few minutes–charmingly occupied with “carving sculptures in the bubbles with my breath”–before becoming quiet. “Mom?” asked he. “Yup, Toots? What’s up?” “What are these little … Continue reading
Tweet“A Pimped-Up Paddy’s Day” (thanks, Paintergirl, for the pikipimp hook-up!) I’m an Irisher by heritage (that, combined with being a quarter Finnish, makes me strangely silent yet talkative, somber yet jovial, staid yet merry), so in honor of yet another … Continue reading
Tweet“Paradise White” Look at them, those long, white, snowy lines of powder. I spent all last weekend snorting them up. It was quite a binge. Two weeks ago, I was jonesing for snow. But then I pawned my fishtank, sold … Continue reading
Tweet “Get Off Your Knees, Stop Clasping Your Hands, and Read Some Aristotle, Ya Knucklesuckers” I am an English teacher, so I get to be crabby. That, along with wearing intimidating glasses, is part of my job. What’s more, … Continue reading
Tweet“Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief?” At loose ends this morning, Wee Niblet queried, “Dad, can we go down in the basement and find stuff we’re not using and tape it together?” Hoppin’ sassafras, but that’s my kind of question. After some … Continue reading
Tweet“My Fantasy Island: Herve Villachez Is to Ricardo Montalban As…a Hawaii Getaway Is to My Snowy Weekend in Duluth” Some folks might argue that I am prone to excess. For example, I have been known to have more than 60 … Continue reading