Mind Flush

Because: Yesterday I finished the first round of taping and mudding on the drywall above my new bathtub ... at 10:15pm. And then I sat ...

That sound you heard yesterday was my 5-year blogiversary flying by, unnoticed by anyone but me.  We've come a long way, baby . And ma...

Purchase a house thoughtfully designed with the plumbing for the main bathroom running through an unheated, uninsulated little architectural...

So we'll just go with the tried-and-true (and dreaded) bullet points: February is long, calendar be damned.  But for $7 and a trip to t...

It's not prime, it's not a multiple of 5 or 10, it's not a milestone - you get the DQ mini ice cream cake and some dudes to pain...

1.  I let my kid go out in public looking like this: 2. I took 200 pictures at a kid's birthday party, and this was the least blurry on...

Again. At least I had a day in between to feel halfway decent, right?

     "Cummins leaned forward over his paper-strewn desk and told me about a poet who had been walking along the beach one morning at lo...

The other night I watched Ghost Busters for the first time in years, and I was really surprised by a couple of things. 1. Aside from some...

I had all these intentions of starting the year off right, making substantive, thoughtful posts for a whole year. Then I spent the whole d...

from me, Jason, Liza, my mother-in-law, and Pete, the shirtless redneck neighbor (TM) : I guess he decided tonight was the night to unload...

Last night we visited the nature center for their Solstice celebration.  Things were appropriately festive ... ... and the candlelit hike...

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/12/21/an-interview-with-the-nativity-innkeeper/ "Let me ask you. So your baby is born, and the first ...

The cats are, that is. The birds have finally found the feeder that I put in the yard back in November (way to be observant, guys!), and t...

Show them this with an absolutely straight face: Or perhaps this is more your style: First person to show these to someone and have them ...

Friday night Liza's school had its annual winter concert, complete with performances from grades K-7.  I had expected to have to drag Li...

It's official, I want to sell everything I own and recreate your decorating in my wonky little split-level in Cleveland. http://rosylit...

Snow!  Real snow! Seriously!  Snow!  Okay, so it's not much, but it's enough to play around with. Time to get the trees up, I gu...