Whenever I move, there are a number of things that keep (barely) sane. Actually, it’s unfair of me to use the term things, when they have names.. Sarah, Suzanne, Ayesha, Talia, Helen, Jan, Johnathan, Kate, Nell.. You see where I’m going with this?
Things inevitably go wrong with even the most well-managed transition; [...]
Continue Reading →I should be better at this. It’s Martha’s first day at Middle School, and I’m a wreck. Tom has been to eight different schools, and Martha, five. Tom has his schools picked carefully, based on environment, academic performance and how welcoming they are to new students. Martha gets shoved in whatever school happens to be [...]
Continue Reading →My son is not speaking to me, and I blame Pagelines and Facebook. After four days of randomly pressing keys to see if just one of them will do something useful (I belong to the osmosis school of web design – stare at the screen for long enough, and understanding will miraculously appear), I worked [...]
Continue Reading →Who’da thunk that it was so difficult to build a website?? And if I read about the 5 minute wordpress set-up one more time, I swear I’m going to scream..
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