Until it’s gone…
We thought we were doing a good thing, giving one of our cats to a sweet and loving family, a family with little girls expert at cuddling and effusive adoration. This, after all, is a feline that has received little to no attention from the Madmarriage household for four years running.
It was nearly a [...]
Role Reversal
I have taken an eleven hour nap. And you can only imagine how rejuvenated a person who hasn’t really, in any significant or decent capacity, slept in months, can feel after such a slumber.
Last night was inexplicably the night that the toll of cumulative insomnia caught me by the nape of the neck and shook [...]
To Do List
O informed me that I am behind on the laundry. “Mom, there is no space for my dirty clothes,” he announced in a disgusted tone this morning as he found the mound of sheets and uniforms and paint covered t-shirts stacked high on the washer. I skipped yesterday and somehow there’s not a clean pair [...]
Sports Extravaganza
We are, so far, louse free and so I am committed to changing my playlist to a more cheerful soundtrack. No more Fallen or Orange Sky or Look After You.
Spring weekends are kid-centric and that’s okay, that’s as it should be. With sporting events, dances and the annual festival with cotton candy and nausea inducing [...]
Brilliance that surrounds me
I’ve been more optimistic recently. Almost giddy on the scent of spring – the distinctive mingle of lilacs, mown lawns and fertilizer in the air. There is rebirth in the vivid green of leaves finally come to cloak the poor, bare sticks of Winter. And there is the glee in the possibility of throwing up [...]
Love or Nothing
I knew there was a wealth of entertainment in these tennis moments. So here’s the beginning – the first round of fictional tennis. Thanks to Ron, who has given me permission to riff on his exquisite lines about love and tennis….
Lara Shepherd bounced the ball four times on the service line before drawing the racket [...]
Hallelujah
Great Scott! Hallelujah! Sweet Jesus! Hot Diggity Dog! I’ve never been so happy to see a damn plug in my entire life. Just imagine me drifting around the house for the past five days lurking in dark hallways, listening at doors, waiting breathlessly for the moment that MBH leaves the computer to fix a [...]
I’m Not Dead
I’m not dead. Nor have I given up blogging. I’m just technologically challenged right now…MBH went on a biz. trip with the laptop early in the week and left the power cord at an office in Florida. Until I receive a FedEx package (hopefully Monday) I’ve got very limited computer access. Drag. Gasp. I can’t [...]
Trauma of the athletic variety
It was an odd weekend…I’m glad to be back to Monday and all the familiar rhythyms of the work-a-day. Saturday and Sunday had a cold drizzle punctuated by periods of hard driving rain, the back drop to Friday night’s Chernoybl-like meltdown with My Better Half and Saturday morning’s damp and chill soccer game where in [...]
M.I.A.
It’s Friday and the reason I’m not here writing sensual poems with unhappy endings is because I’ve gone to the gym to dash off a quick three miles and hurl myself through the Nautilus circuit so I can be in G’s classroom by 10:30 where I will volunteer to be her teacher’s punching bag for [...]
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