Queen of Rambles

Never utter the phrase “let’s take the shortcut.” I should have learned that long ago, but I don’t know many shortcuts, so I don’t often take them. Tonight we were burned by a very long shortcut, which led to eating the worst dinner in the history of dinners. We would have been [...]

I am getting really tired of thinking up titles for posts. At one point I used to try to be creative. That was probably three years ago. These days? I am just pathetic. I feel all storied out. Sometimes I wonder why I even keep this thing active.
Anyway. [...]

Tuesday is the deadline for the Expectations issue of Mosaic Minds! We’d love to get feature articles, travel tales, short stories and poetry. Also, we are in desperate need of a new Joyful Girl columnist, so if you have a cache of funny stories/thoughts that you’d like to share and are able to [...]

Getting up at 6:30 on a Saturday morning should be illegal. I don’t want to be up this early. I want to be snuggled down in my bed, dreaming the dreams of the happy and content.
I suppose when you go to bed at 8 o’clock on a Friday night you have [...]

Is it wrong to laugh at my husband’s rising anger as he talks about his book frustrations on the phone with another obsessed weirdo? I think he’s the ranty ranty one.
Still no word on what’s wrong with Granny. She has hardening of the arteries in her kidneys and brain (the reason she is [...]

I talked to my mom and she says that I don’t need to fly out there right now. She says everything is going to be just fine. What she is basing this on I do not know. It sounds like no one knows anything. Grandma has been taking all sorts of [...]

I hope I don’t have to make an unplanned trip out to Oregon this weekend. You know unplanned trips across the country are rarely the result of good news.
I came home to an ominous message about my grandma being in the hospital and bleeding internally. I called the hospital and was unable to [...]

Ever see the movie Aladdin? You know that tiger head thing made out of sand? He, if tiger head things can have a gender, warns that woe will fall upon anyone who dare to enter the mysterious sand mountain.
I really could have used that tiger head today. I needed a [...]

I got up early this morning and drank 32 ounces of water. I didn’t immediately pee, as is the norm when I drink so much water these days. No, no. I had to hold it all in.
Today was the big day.
Mike put on his best shirt and fancy tie, so he’d be [...]

Today was another good day. How is this possible? It was another day of 9th grade biology and the activities were engaging so it’s not a surprise that it was an a-ok day. The only hitch came at the end of the day. I was asked to go and cover another [...]