Currently browsing posts found in July2007
You inherited it from your mother, I’m afraid. The inability to smile without first looking like you are in intense pain.
Posted at: July 31st, 2007 - 11:33 am - Number of Comments » 4
Sorry, life attack prevented Science Friday from going off on time. I had to move into the Director’s office at work (which is exactly the same as my old office, only with a better view), so that the new scientist that is coming to save me by taking over some of my old responsibilities (which […]
Posted at: July 24th, 2007 - 2:24 pm - Number of Comments » 4
The romanticism of our modern society likes to make such an ideal out of the concept of unconditional love – the self-sacrifice, the constancy, the faith. But I think the ideal folds back upon us and paints us into a corner from which there is no escape. It demands we love beyond the bounds of […]
Posted at: July 19th, 2007 - 12:57 pm - Number of Comments » 2
Okay, folks, I have taken your input (those of you who still seem interested), and I have produced a new, improved, and much-shortened GAMBLE list – to start this week with the new Harry Potter by popular demand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows The Great Mortality Eye Contact Phantoms in the Brain Size 12 […]
Posted at: July 19th, 2007 - 11:28 am - Number of Comments » 2
I have already broken one of my strict unofficial rules about blogging. I blogged about blogging. Now, I am going to break and even more sacred one. I am blogging about NOT blogging. How sorry is that? I have reached new depths of online depravity. (Okay, a quick review of my spamlog reveals that’s an exaggeration. […]
Posted at: July 17th, 2007 - 8:28 pm - Number of Comments » 5
I love being a mom. And I am lucky enough to be married to a man who is truly the best dad in the whole universe. But the icing on the cake is those moments that I am struck with the realization that the greatest dad in the world is also… …Just. Damned. Sexy.
Posted at: July 12th, 2007 - 11:49 am - Number of Comments » 11
… when the barista in the Starbucks at the Little Rock Airport recognizes you as a regular and starts your drink before you even get to the front of the line. And gets it right.
Posted at: July 9th, 2007 - 5:11 pm - Number of Comments » 3
Sorry to get this late start. Last Friday was my son’s birthday (more on that later), and life got unexpectedly complicated in the interim. Well, let me rephrase that – it got more complicated. More on that later, too. Maybe. Suz asks: So cool! Okay – here’s what I want to know and I apologize […]
Posted at: July 6th, 2007 - 3:32 pm - Number of Comments » 17
Recently I have been given a bit of a forced epiphany regarding my views on relationships and endurance. I hate to think I am a slow learner, but after two marriages, I realize that what I know may be a mote in the eye of what I do not. Even after the slow dissolution of […]
Posted at: July 4th, 2007 - 12:23 pm - Number of Comments » 8
I want to say thank you again. Her Bad Mother has nominated my MBT entry for a June ’07 Perfect Post award. Getting a nod from another blogger whose writing I envy is so much better than candy. It makes me even sadder that I am not going to be able to make BlogHer this year […]
Posted at: July 3rd, 2007 - 11:15 am - Number of Comments » 4