It’s been a while since we’ve visited our alma mater, University of Idaho, and it almost took an act of God to get us all in the car and on the road in time to actually get there before dark. It’s a six-hour drive to Moscow from here. We’ve been meaning to get up there […]
Betty, Bill Gates, and Beer Pong
Originally, today’s post lamented the lack of beer pong at baby showers. No, really, it did. This is an important conversation to be had. However, I recently also realized that today is World Polio Day, which is another subject that speaks to me, although it occupies a different part of my consciousness than beer pong. […]
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Teen Drivers and the Tao of Natural Consequences
When the kids were little, I was known for making threats that would be difficult, inconvenient or downright impossible to carry out. Mostly, this consisted of vowing to deposit a passenger or two on the side of the road if they didn’t stop arguing, or to “turn this car around” when we all knew wherever […]
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Autumn is awesome. You shut up.
Among the latest Internet hate-fest rampages is the subject of autumn. I don’t get it. People seem to have lost sight of the fact that pumpkin spice lattes signal the end of the asphalt-melting, sweating-out-your-eyeballs, my-lawn-is-crispy-but-I-no-longer-care season. But I haven’t. True, summer around here has yet to come to an abrupt end. It’s still that […]
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Don’t make me shop with these people
Do you want to know what I enjoy more than clothes shopping for myself? … That is to say, more than hauling my carcass to some monolithic mecca of commercialism smack in the center of an asphalt plane crowded with cars? More than wandering through crowds of gabby, smelly shoppers and their sticky progeny meandering […]
