Phoenix bundles up in layer upon layer and fits herself with her new hat and handwarmers and big boots, runs outside and jumps up alongside me in my mother's tr ...
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Question: How should we handle our daughter’s “dramatics”?
A friend and reader writes me an email in late June, 2010: periodic breakdowns (when overly tired) that are just SAD AND INTENSE. Everything comes up -includi ...
una otra gata por mas loco en casa
We Hogabooms have, shall we say, less than self-serving instincts. Like the fact I am trying to convince my husband to buy this kind of dive-y (yet very afford ...
upon the eve of 33 / some random Hoga-joys for thee
Do you follow my Twitter feed? (my latest tweets are always up there ^^^ ). I say all this really witty stuff. Well that and I regurgitate the things I love ...
She went her unremembering way / She went and left in me / The pang of all the partings gone / And partings yet to be.
At 4:45 I'm sitting in the vet's lobby with my cat in carrier. She isn't happy to be there. Neither am I. I'm just desensitized, really. I've spent the last ...
long post, but not twelve years long
Dad has put up both the bird feeders he got for his birthday (one's a hummingbird feeder right outside the living room, and the other is a regular wood feeder f ...
grim little fun
Today the four of us went out in our daily search for rentals in Hoquiam. Our criteria include factors like monthly lease amount, typical utility bills in resi ...
i’m guessing their world is kind of like being on a hallucinogen
Ralph's made a pile of 11" by 17" paper for the kids to draw on. It's allowed them to expand their art to the edges of the paper. Nels draws elaborate botanic ...
the pet update, because i know you’re on the edge of your seat.
I'm not sure what was more silly: the decadent sleep-poses I was able to pry my cat into (upside down on my lap, paws in the air) or the fact Ralph, my mother, ...
adventures in sreeping
I'm not in top-form this morning so I don't have a great analogy for my nighttime experience, where I go to bed with one or maybe two people and wake up next to ...
"You know, I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed…really hard."
Today dawned hopeful, cold and clear - and plopped down on stuffy, whored-out and pissy. I am having a terribly discouraging time with aspects of Nels' prescho ...
of hobgoblins and horking
It's official. I like vacations. I don't really get tired of the kids being underfoot. I like sleeping in with the kids, cooking for them, and doing projects ...