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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]