Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
(overall Vegas vacation report coming later. First, the baseball part) I know, I know, back in December, I thought I had witnessed The Best Baseball Game Ever. It was. But now there is another one. One that can rank alongside the first one for completely different reasons, but one which was equally fun to watch.... Continue Reading →
The Good: Arriving early and watching both teams during batting practice. We sat in an area of right field called The Porch which is prime home run target area for left handed hitters. One of the balls was hit by Brian Giles and was actually a ground ball down the line, but a Padres pitcher... Continue Reading →
Today is catch up day. I have been presented a some time this morning as my brunch date canceled so I am surfing my friend's blogs and realized I owe a couple of things. First off - one full week late - here is a link to an interview that Grandy did of me for... Continue Reading →
What started out as a reply to a Facebook thread has evolved into a blog post 🙂 But first, BREAKING NEWS for all of my LGBT friends. IOWA....freaking IOWA just broke through as the first non-New England state to stand for marriage equality. As I said on twitter - cheering the state with a generous... Continue Reading →
Almost two years ago I shared how my brain works in terms of viewing the way each year goes in my own version of 'seasons'. So now I am going to share another weird corner of my brain ( as if there are any non-weird ones eh?) In case you hadn't noticed, I tend to... Continue Reading →
Last year I posted a theory that we are all pretty much immersed in the ADD way of living thanks in large part to the internet (and having too many bazillion channels on TV). Given the recent explosion in Facebook and Twitter activity/friends, it's really only become worse since that post. Well, one of the... Continue Reading →
I'm just not in a writing frame of mind. At least not for anything decent. The things I've observed that I *want* to write about will take too much prep time at the moment that I just don't have. Adam Lambert is still, and will remain, MY American Idol for 2009. Can they jsut get... Continue Reading →
Here's the plan: Monday I will print out the homework assignments from the 4 teacher's web sites (nothing for Drama or PE). We will look at them together and rank them in numerical order of due date/amount of time needed for completion. I know he already is warming up to this idea and understands it... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 