Highlights of 2008

January.  January of 2008 was  the beginning of  an amazing year.    I woke up on New Years Day to the start of a new life and a hot shower!
Getting my BlackBerry.  I have to admit that my BlackBerry has changed my life.  I now have access to my various email accounts, my Facebook, CNN, the [...]

What Book Am I?

You’re One Hundred Years of Solitude!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lonely and struggling, you’ve been around for a very long time.
Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there
is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all
the more for having seen its decimation. [...]

Lips (A Study in Contrast)

There are two moments when I am most aware of my lips.
The first is when I am kissing someone.  There is a moment when my lips are millimeters away from another set of lips.  That split second before they touch.  I find myself blissfully aware of where my lips are on my body and in [...]

Randomness

Today I am the Mom, not of a 2 year old little girl, of a puppy.  Not a real puppy but a 2 year old little girl who insists that she is a puppy.  Said puppy has spilled her juice on the table in order to lap it up with her tongue and then look [...]

2007: Reviewed

This is the first in a three part series on looking back on the past year and looking forward into the next
What words will define this year for me?
Divorce : 2007 will go down in infamy as the year that my divorce from my high school sweetheart/husband of 10 years was final. [...]

7 (Random and Useless)

The Most High and Holy Jaynova tagged me for this little seven thingy.
So here are seven random and useless things about me. Sorta.
No. 1 – Baby Jesus is MIA. My daughters have this cute Fisher Price Little People Nativity Set. Since my baby loves the Little People the set is out [...]

Ode to Parchment Paper

For anyone who doesn’t know parchment paper is an ovenproof nonstick paper. The joy of parchment paper is that when baking a cheesecake (the reason I use the cheesecake example is that I have one in the oven as I type this) the cheesecake will not stick to the springform pan [...]

True/False Meme

This week, in honor of Thanksgiving, I’m giving my readers something to be thankful for. I’m taking up the torch of the Meme. Mymy Meme. If these Meme’s are out in the hinterland of interland I haven’t seen them as Meme’s but then I lead a sheltered life [...]

DoSoEvAyMo

With all of this talk of the NaNoWriMo and NaNoBloPoMo (don’t they both sound like anime characters names) going on through the blogworld I got to thinking.
I don’t want to spend the month writing all those words with my face stuck in my laptop or journal. I’ve been doing enough of that at work [...]