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I’m off work this week, and as a result, I have exactly no attention span. I mean, normally my attention span is not great… But right now it’s extra horrible...

I was watching “Pawn Stars” Monday evening, and an ad for Domino’s Pizza came on during a commercial break. The guy doing the voiceover told me, as well as ...

The opening lines of Simon and Garfunkel’s tune “The 59th Street Bridge Song” (“Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last.”) have always...

I think my brain is broken. Or maybe it’s just worn out. Either way, it could use a tune up or some replacement parts or something… I mean, I usually have ...

Sometimes it strikes me just how differently Nolan and I perceive a situation. This weekend’s adventure gave me a couple of very clear examples of that. And ...

Do you see that lady holding my son? Don’t let that sweet smile fool you. She could be tough. Long before she became a proud, doting grandmother, I knew Sa...

I’ve said since before the first post of this blog that I don’t want to get political unless it pertains directly to autism/ programs/ funding/ etc. Even wit...

Spoiler Alert: No offspring were harmed in the making of this post. So we live in this strange state of semi-childproof daily living. There are things we don...

I look at this picture, which was taken a couple of months before I began my senior year of high school, and I think, boy, what a knucklehead. The summer of ...

So this isn't a whole big introspective post like we so often do. But after seeing how well last week's "slice of life" post was received, I thought you migh...

“Ugh… What a week.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that. It seems to feel right most weeks-- including this week. So I thought this week it might...

Maybe it wasn’t a big deal and we wouldn’t be missing a lot, but I needed to find out so maybe I could be convinced. I’d been prepping myself for a few weeks...

I have a friend who started calling her son her Hairy Man Child when he was in his late teens. It makes total sense to me. Legally, he was an adult. He cou...

I know I’m not alone when I say that I can’t keep track of what day it is. What’s worse is that I’m still working full time-- my regular work schedule even. ...

This isn’t really a post with any sort of Bey Family insight or update necessarily… It’s kind of not even a real post at all. I started writing about puberty...

A sunny, 66-degree early April day in western Wisconsin is cause for celebration in a part of the nation where we sometimes need to keep our warmer coats han...

I’m starting to feel like Bill Murray’s character in "Groundhog Day". I suspect I’m not the only one. My days are all starting to look the same-- just like t...

We have new neighbors moving in. Their house is still under construction, but very close to being done. Soon, mom and dad will have a few hungry mouths to ...

Hey everyone! So when I talked about finding happy distractions, I promised a giveaway… I’m slower than I had hoped to be in getting it out there, but here w...

“Do you need anything?” Since I knew “A swingset!” wasn’t the answer she was looking for, I just told my sister that we were all set. Because really, food a...