GG absolutely loves Wii. She was on a bowling hot streak one night when she missed her spare. “D@*$ !” Huh? “What did you say?” She said it again. I picked up my jaw off the floor and flashed back to the first time I said a …um… chosen word in my mom's presence. Before I continue, you’ve got to understand...

*BFF is internet-speak for Best Friend Forever. It's the only internet- speak I know besides FYI, LOL, ROFLMAO. “Now….are you crying because it’s that time of the month, or uh…..” That was my Beloved's response to me crying over a working-mother dilemma I was facing. Bottom line is this: there...

Good comedy's all about timing ; and if you were at Red Arrow Park's Slice of Ice this past Friday around 2:00ish, you probably got some great comedy from the adults there skating badly. VERY badly. Like this one woman -- she oozed cockiness as she came out of the skate rental place with her...

This time of year known as the Holiday Season to everyone else is known as Year End to those of us in the non-profit world. Now's when we make our last push to get those extra donations in to meet our budgets and fundraising goals, so we send out letters, double-check with funders that we've...

Today’s the 17 th …so let’s see….25 minus 17 means there’s….EIGHT MORE DAYS until Christmas! There's still plenty of time left! I'll start with our Christmas tree. Poor thing’s been sitting there naked except for three hundred lights and some garland. Easily squeezed in tonight after GG’s Christmas...

4 days until D-Day – or shall I say the B-Day ( although, technically, GG’s birthday is indeed D-Day/Pearl Harbor ). Anyway, she’s turning 6 on Sunday, and I’m not quite sure what to do with myself. I don’t know if has to do with hormonal stuff that women go through when they reach a certain age, or...

Years ago -- somewhere in my early twenties -- my friends and I would make the annual pilgrimage to Summerfest six out of the festival's eleven days. Essential to our annual ritual was scrambling around to get our "Summerfest Outfits" in the days before we went. When we finally made it...