Bad Language

Over the summer, I think I must have stubbed my toe an awful “lot”.We coupled a visit with my dad in Malibu with my sister’s wedding in Santa Barbara in July and the greatest thing in the world for the kids was dad’s swimming pool. The fact that we were there during the 100 degree [...]

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Overheard this Morning

Overheard this morning, a dialog between 5 (soon to be 6) and (now, as of today) 4 year old.Red: “Four years ago, Mommy got a baby. And that baby was YOU!”
Blue: “Meeee? Mommy GOT me? How did she get me?”
Red: “She got you from her tummy. She ate too many pieces of cake and then [...]

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Randomness

I think that every time I wash my sheets in the laundry and they go through the drier and I go upstairs to make my bed, I start to put the fitted sheet on the bed and find about a pair of underwear balled up in the corner of the sheet, having gone through the [...]

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Pretending to Vote

I have always had a hard time standing up for myself and what I believed in. I suppose this is a preface to another blog entry, which might be a few weeks.
Part of my problem was that I wasn’t quite sure what I believed in, because I was always told what to believe or think [...]

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Robbed

I was recently thinking of something that happened a few years ago. I am a painter, as in art, not houses (if you dont include the mural work that I do), and a client bought a very large framed watercolor from one of my art openings.
About 6 months later he contacted me, telling me his [...]

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And on the “trillionth” day, she could hear

I can hear now.
Pretty much EVERYTHING.
I CAN HEAR MYSELF BREATHING.
I picked up my hearing aids the other day. For vanity purposes, I spent an extra $150 each to get the smallest possible. (the total being close to 4k….my life savings)
What I am realizing is this: I was missing a HELL of alot.
But I do think [...]

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