I rode the train downtown for a doctor appointment yesterday. It had been quite a while since I’d been on a train, and it reminded me of what, I think, is an amazing story from when I lived in Chicago, when I rode the El all the time.
I had gone downtown I think to [...]

Ready? brrrrrrrrrr…you know, I can’t actually make that drumroll sound with my mouth.  So I guess it makes sense that I have no idea how to write it here, either.  Anyway, picked at random using a random number generator (I had this whole elaborate plan of writing the numbers of all the comments down and [...]

Nearly four years ago The Hubs and I went on a trip to Wisconsin, sort of a last hoorah before he began his second year of law school, and I went back to teaching in September. It wasn’t much of a trip, just to an inn with some restaurants, a pool, tennis courts (we [...]

He gets out late. There’s traffic due to the rain. It’s already dark, almost dinner time already, and he hasn’t been home for about ten hours. He’s missing his family - his wife, the older child, the baby - but he’s so tired and ready to just collapse and go to bed. [...]

I’m so ashamed, but it’s time to come clean. Just this past week my husband and I finally got life insurance. That means that up until last Friday, we had none. I know. We have CHILDREN for goodness sake. Why weren’t we thinking of the CHILDREN?! Well, we were; [...]

My husband sent me this today. It’s an excerpt from a column he reads on a regular basis written by “The Sports Guy.” Sports Guy and his wife recently had their second child, both very close to our children in age. Pretty damn funny. And here’s the rest of the article [...]