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This week’s Monday Listicles topic is 10 Things To Do With School. I’m still at Stinson beach since we don’t start school until Sept. 7th, so I’m putting off the back-to-school mode until – well, as long as possibly possible. So, 10 beachy things. 1. Driving over the mountain and seeing this view is one [...]

This week’s Listicles topic over at NorthWest Mommy is a good one (what week isn’t?) – 10 Things My Parents Did Right, chosen by Lisa over at The Sprog. I’m amending it to 10 Things My Alcoholic Parents Taught Me, because that’s basically what this blog is about: me writing about how my alcoholic parents [...]

This week’s topic over at Monday Listicles is Ten 15 People Living or Dead You Would Invite To Your Dream Dinner Party. I love this topic! 

This week’s topic over at Stasha’s: irritating sounds that irritate me. I love this topic because I like to discuss things that irritate me, even though it’s irritating.

If you’re all out of birthday party ideas for kids and need a little inspiration, Robbie from Fractured Family Tales has chosen this week’s Monday Listicles topic - birthdays! One of my favorite things about being a mom is planning and hosting children’s birthday parties.

I’m feeling grateful today, and the topic is gratitude. (-:

My friend Deborah of Mannahattamama chose this week’s Listicles topic. Deborah is from the Big Apple via the mid-West and now lives with her husband and children in Abu Dhabi (exotic, much?!), where she is a professor and an avid reader (she also reviewed my novel on her blog). Anyway, since the wonderful author Nora Ephron died last [...]

Hello again! 

There are a lot of things that make me go WTF pretty much everyday. One of the reasons why we no longer have a television is that the news – those ads for Viagra and drugs for depression – makes me have way too many WTF?! moments.