• comment on cooking

    When I was younger, like early teens, I used to make up ‘recipes’ for cakes and things and bake them in the oven and my family even sometimes ate them. Those things that were edible. I had no idea what…

  • Brutus

    Brutus, as the weather channel has dubbed the storm, passed through/is still passing through. We had about 5 inches or snow, give or take. And now it may be snowing, though the wind is whipping and it could just as…

  • the sludge moves

    I got some writing done today. Yay. And the blizzard they’ve named Brutus is sweeping Montana. Hasn’t kicked in to much here. But apparently it will and we’ll get a bunch of snow tonight and tomorrow. we’ll see. Oftenwrong is…

  • The post that vanished

    I wrote a post last night and my wifi cut out and I lost the post. It was totally amazing. Gripping. You missed out. So for today, I’m posting on disasters over at Magical Words. It’s long, thoughtful, erudite .…

  • not on the Nano train

    I’m not nanoing this year. Mostly because I can’t seem to organize to write for it right now. Between this stupid single-momhood, the day job, and general distraction, I don’t think I can focus enough. Plus my desktop computer is…

  • productivity

    Today we took my iMac to the shop to get a new hard drive because apparently there’s a recall on them, and though I haven’t had trouble, it could happen any time, so I took advantage of the good weather…

  • Winners!

    Okay, thanks to the random number generator, I can tell you who the winners of the giveaway are. Thanks for playing all! Paul @Princejvstin Wins card the first. Van P. wins card the second. Send me your preferred email and…

  • Skylanders Giants

    First, I’ve been watching coverage of Sandy and worrying about everyone on the east coast all day. Please know you’re in my thoughts and prayers. I hope you’re all safe and warm. Now, onto the actual subject of my post.…

  • Single parenthood

    Someone on facebook asked if it was hard to be a single parent. Or maybe it was is it it harder to be a single parent. I didn’t answer there because in truth, I’m not a single mom, I’m just…

  • A bizzard? Really?

    We had a blizzard today. A thunder blizzard. It didn’t last long, but we had whiteout conditions and meanwhile the thunder was just rolling. It was pretty cool actually, but mostly because I was in the house, not outside trying…