Archives for October, 2008

Hugfull of Purple Paint


I call Baby Girl’s day care. She hasn’t been feeling well, she a cough and hasn’t slept as well as she usually does. They say she doesn’t have any of the day care symptoms for needing to go home, no fever or signs of something contagious. But, she has been coughing a lot and her [...]

Thank Goodness For Finding My Big Underwear


It’s Sunday morning, Baby Girl and I just finished breakfast and Blue Eyes is outside mowing the lawn. Some times, just after I finish eating, by stomach changes its mind. This time I don’t get much warning, I rush to the bathroom, lift the toilet lid and let go of my english muffins and apple [...]

Baby Learning: As Interesting as Men’s Outdoor Footwear


I’ve shared with ya’ll all of the money (you know, like the Free Box of Huggies Coupon) and fame (my Wall Street Journal interview that didn’t get published) that blogging brings. But I haven’t mentioned the many job opportunities. I was on Craig’s list the other day (trying to sell Neil Diamond tickets in San [...]

The Global Pool of Money: Why Ira Glass is Sexy


If you told me a few years ago that I would LOVE , LOVE, LOVE a one-hour long documentary radio show about banking, I would have said NO, NO WAY. There is NO WAY that I would listen to and enjoy and then spread the word about a one-hour long documentary radio show about banking…

Checking into Labor and Delivery at 18 Weeks (No Worries, We Are Both Fine)


It feels strange to check-in at the Labor and Delivery nurse’s station when you are just 18 weeks along. It is like a horse jockey walking into a Big and Tall men’s shop. It’s not like the sales people would be rude, they would just think that, most likely, he was lost.
I’m not really showing [...]