The cards have been mailed, and plenty received. If someone's been missed, we would surely be grieved. The stockings are hung by the ch...

This is my Grandpa Johnson. Isn't he handsome? He was a big man, about six-foot-two or six-foot-three, with broad shoulders and (when I...

How many of those words came out yelling? Answer? A lot. Today was a faow day [pronounced faux, as in fake snow day]. You know, the kind w...

Yesterday afternoon I was folding the laundry. Movement out in the backyard caught my eye, and I looked up in horror at the sight. My secon...

The weekend of Thanksgiving has become the much-anticipated time when we put up The Tree. It is so sacred and important in my children'...

I am in so much trouble. Like serious, intervention-required, may-never-wear-anything-but-a-muu-muu-again trouble. Look what those damn lit...

Guess what? So it turns out that there is this crazy thing called "The Internet." And on "The Internet" there are thes...

Yesterday, I turned 37. The Husband was out of town, and, knowing this, we had already planned to celebrate over the weekend. I was fine wit...

Hannah came running in, her cheeks flushed and her face set. She sighed, an exasperated release of air coming from her tiny chest. I waited...

I am not a glass half-full kind of girl. I would like to be, but it is just not in my nature. For example: A bad haircut can dissolve my s...

[Originally posted April 3, 2008. And still hugely embarrassing] Let's just say you are in your mudroom, putting in a new load of laun...

[Originally posted June 20, 2007] Start in Salt Lake City on the very day that Nixon proclaims to the world, "I am not a crook." ...

I'm taking a much-needed blog break. Life has not been on my side lately, and it's time to regroup and find my center. But I'm ...

Internets, we are full in the swing of the ONE TIME each year when I go off my rigid, healthy, vegetable-laden diet and indulge in sugar-fil...

In honor of the fact that today is Monday (and Mondays really are the black sheep of the Day family), I feel the need to share some of the d...

When I saw this post over at the Nester, I knew I had to have one of my very own. Only, I didn't want to pay big bucks for something I ...

[the shameful evidence of my addiction] I have always had a hard and fast rule in place for myself: If I drink 48 ounces of water before noo...