From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Parenting At the Edge

April 17, 2010

I sincerely hope you are in a better mood than I am. I feel I am being faced more and more with my parenting failures. Disobedient, even defiant children have become much more the norm in our house lately, and I am seriously troubled by it. Claire, my third-grader, remains largely sweet and playful. It [...]

4 comments Read more →

Being Catholic, Part 2

April 16, 2010

I promised more on this topic, and so, to stay true to my word, here’s a little more ranting on the morally bankrupt, male-ordered dictatorship we call the Vatican. Rest assured, next week I’ll get back to posting the fascinating details of life in suburbia, which include attempting to grow a freelance writing business while committing umpteen hours [...]

0 comments Read more →

Being Catholic, Part 1

April 11, 2010

The sex abuse scandals in the Catholic church just keep coming, don’t they? And how about that Pope? It looks as if his approach to addressing alleged sexual abuse back when he was a Cardinal could be described as the “wait and see” method. I don’t know Latin, but I interpret what I have read [...]

4 comments Read more →

Spring Break is SO NOT a Respite or Vacation

April 8, 2010

This week is Spring Break for my Kindergartener and my Third Grader. They have been on vacation since Good Friday. What do you call the antithesis of vacation? Because I’m pretty sure that’s what I’m having. Really, it hasn’t been a wretched week. Monday we kind of laid low, and the girls played nicely together [...]

1 comment Read more →

[insert drumroll] Ta-Da! Re-Design!!

April 7, 2010

Let’s be honest: it’s really the flagship, charter-member-type design, because the visual stuff I had up here before simply screamed “Amateur!!” Give me a cross-stitch pattern, and I can duplicate it. Give me some jute, and I’ll macrame something cool, possibly functional, but definitely not “in.” But web design? XML and CSS are even more [...]

0 comments Read more →

Next Entries →