Fi and I are going to California next week for a field hockey tournament with her school’s team. One of the activities that parents are encouraged to participate in is the hike. “An arduous hike.” 

It’s been a while since I last posted. To be honest I’ve been off the blog for so long that I was afraid what I would see in the comments when I got here. If I take a break from the blog, spammers flock to it like flies to shit. They seem to have a [...]

“Hold on, I have to breathe.” My friend Tom has cancer. 

Woke up to this today: Didn’t expect it. (That’s an upturned chair on the lawn, if you’re wondering.) I got the flu two days ago – horrible – in an instant my health was completely gone. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt as if I was going to pass out. [...]

This is another update on how the New Rules thing at our house is going down (and I do mean down, as into the abyss). It isn’t going well.

Writing yesterday’s post about my mom dredged up the sad stuff for me. Since writing it I haven’t been able to get far enough away from that image of the 7-year-old me putting that blanket over my mom and me on the floor because I couldn’t drag her by her feet to bed. I can’t [...]

My latest parenting mistake which I blame on my ADHD: Fi got cast as Tiger Lily in our school play (Peter Pan) so I immediately panicked. I ordered 4 (or 5) different styles of inexpensive Indian costumes on Amazon. And some plastic American Indian jewelry. And a hundred feathers and 3 headbands and stuff to [...]

You may not know this – or care – but one of the things the irritates the fudge out of me is the fact that I’ve been unable to read James Joyce’s Ulysses, despite four serious attempts, a Cliff’s Notes supplement, and several guide books. I am a writer, I was an English Lit. major, [...]

I haven’t had much to say now that I’ve been on Huff Post Live and all, now that I’m practically famous in my own mind. I may have stunned myself into a deer-in-the-headlights kind of a thing for a while there, and stunned deer don’t have much to write about.