I have one and only one reason that I have not finished answering all your lovely questions yet.
My work is kicking my proverbial-and-ample-you-know-what.
I can barely sit down.
 Love and Kisses,
Me.

Five Little Monkeys, jumping on the bed,
One fell out and bumped his head,
Went to the doctor and the doctor said:
NO MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED!

Because sometimes the world needs a little gratuitous cuteness.

Okay, ready to tackle an SCA question.  My non-SCA readers can now put their fingers in their ears and say la-la-la-la, or read on, because the following has applications in the real-world.  It’s kind of along the lines of mentor-student relationships, role models, and personal authenticity.
 Kat asks:
 OK. I would love your take on a thought I [...]

Please, please, PLEASE, if you are going to have live chat customer service (which is a dandy idea in my book), please hire people with a higher typing speed than I have.
Please.
Thank you.
A loyal, if impatient, customer.

With Valentine’s Day still in the back of my mind, I need to answer Harp’s question:
I’ve always herard that women face a difficult 2 out of 3 choice: Mother, Wife, Career. It is said you can only do 2 of them well. Yet you seem to be the exception.
Thoughts?
First – thanks for the vote [...]

This news, as expected as it was, sent a shock through me.
I was a Cold War baby.  Fidel Castro has been in control of Cuba since five years before I was born.  Condemnation and distrust of the nations listed in the Communist Roster was instilled in me from my earliest awareness – on the news, [...]

I had a GREAT Valentine’s Day weekend.
And a productive one.
Kris and I started the weekend by attending “Romance Night” at Firefly Studio.  We were one of only two couples that came in for it, but we had a lot of fun.  We worked on a sushi platter with two sauce bowls. 
Our inspiration?
Kris’s cell phone.
He has [...]

I got back into town last night just in time to cool my heels for two and a half hours in the Little Rock Airport waiting for my mom’s plane to arrive from Minneapolis.  By the time we got home it was 1 am, and Valentine’s Day had already started.
And it had.
Waiting for me on [...]

No time to blog right now – I am on my way out of town on the FIRST business trip of the year.  I have been grateful for the hiatus.
Instead I will share this with you, taken in a rare moment of serenity:
Mr and. Mrs. Awareness

 Excuse the quality of the pic – I took it [...]

Gillian asked a nice series of questions.  I will tackle those first because I am just not ready for the SCA-related ones. 
 What is your favourite part of the day and why?
I think my very favorite parts of the day are the very beginning and the very end.  Those are the times I spend quietly with [...]