Five companies, two children, three apartments, four family illnesses, four grandparent deaths, two houses, a dozen cars, two dogs, one hamster, 6 fish, countless trips and vacations, ten tennis seasons, four family member divorces, a hundred Friday night dinner-and-a-movie’s, one World Series of Poker tournament, two surprise birthday parties, fifteen Christmas’s, several car wrecks, a [...]

I have got to stop pretending that I can do absolutely anything. I’m not really fooling anyone and I do nothing but get myself into trouble. The movers were coming to Scott’s dad’s house on Sunday and while the house was being cleared out there were just a few things left on the list of [...]

This is an email that my mother sent to me and my sister Julie. There’s nothing wrong with her, and she’s not being morbid, she just really really likes to plan:

I am making a will and a living will. Mine is no longer applicable. Hopefully I will have something to leave. On that optimistic note [...]

You know when you have something very unpleasant to do but there’s just no way around it? When you have to put your head down and just trudge forward – Scott calls that “taking a bite out of his shit sandwich.” For example, “Do you want take the girls to Piedmont Park today?” His answer, [...]

I had to take Brewster to get neutered yesterday. As I drove the kids to school I explained to them that he was having surgery so they had to be very gentle with him when they got home. What kind of surgery? It’s called getting neutered. Why does he have to have it? Um… [...]

My mother has an old dear friend visiting Atlanta this week. I call her Fancy Mary. Her husband is Fancy Jim. My mother cares more about Fancy Mary’s opinion than anyone else on the planet. Entire home renovation projects were planned around Fancy Mary coming to visit. Our house had “clean” and then “Fancy Mary [...]

Can there be anything more tedious than April Fools Day with two small children? They were “fooling” me all morning. And they’re not really that good at it. Mom, I don’t like milk anymore. April Fools! My field trip is next week. April Fools! Tempel’s ant farm broke in the kitchen. April Fools! It went [...]