The Thing With The Stuff

Be a clown

Amelia set up a “fair” in our backyard. She’s a clown with mismatched shoes on her ears.

Mama don’t I look like you?

Mama, don’t I look like you? See, I’m wearing your flip-flops.

When Baxter dresses himself

Avengers shirt, cute skirt, necklaces, stickers all over his legs. When asked if I could take his picture he posed and shouted, “Wonder Woman!!!”

Why is it excellent, preferable, to have women over 40, or 50, or 60 in the workplace? Let me count the ways (though the fact that I have to count at all makes me purple). The first one, obviously, is that it’s simply excellent to have a diverse workplace — people who don’t look, think,Continue reading “Older Women in the Workplace”

August flowers

Concerts in Ardenwald Park

Tonight for National Night Out, we went to one of the free summer concerts at our local (really local, like 5 block away) park. The Ardenwald-Johnson Creek Neighborhood Association puts on concerts at the humble and cozy Ardenwald Park every Thursday in August. It was fun while we were there! Some friends and family joinedContinue reading “Concerts in Ardenwald Park”

Crape myrtle

100 days of daily blogging

Today is the 100th day in a row that I’ve published something on this blog! I know, right? 🙂 I’ve been blogging with WordPress since about 2006, when I started my wine blog, Wine Scamp. Then I got pregnant and stopped blogging. Then I started again, and got pregnant again and stopped blogging. Except that’sContinue reading “100 days of daily blogging”

Pinecones, juvenile and mature

Be kind; unwind

Just me, some rosé, a bowl of rice crackers, and the Netflix tonight. There may or may not be a huge pile of laundry that needs folding down here too; I’ll never tell.