Planning college visits for my son over Spring Break I can’t help but recall my senior year. Tease your hair, break out the acid washed jeans and electric blue eye shadow…or just dance and sing along in your jammies – that’s what I’m doing! What songs take you back?
Category: Legacy Musings – KR
Earlier essays and updates from our pre-remodel era—kept here for longtime readers.
I Yam What I Yam….
And that’s all that I yam…..REALLY??? “I think, therefore I am.” Ok….AND?? We, as human beings have made great strides in understanding and appreciating the necessity of being self-aware. As parents we SHOULD know how important it is to teach our children to embrace their individuality and uniqueness. My question is….Is being aware enough? I’ve…
“A daughter’s a daughter all of her life”
I remember David Wallace giving me a “real Valentine’s card” in the 4th grade. Not one of those box of 100’s we passed out to EVERY classmate. I remember The Husband giving me 2 roses on our first Valentine’s Day. (Only dating 2 months so it was appropriate – he got cookies) I remember hand…
Dohn’t be ah gurleh mahn!
So there I was, face down on carpet that smells suspiciously like dog (going to have to talk to Iris the Wonder Wiener about that) arms cramping, laughing so hard I can’t breathe and my 16yr old daughter…for the purposes of this blog, Satan…is sitting cross ways in the chair, filing her damn nails! Yes! …
Panem et Circenses (Bread and Circuses)
In the wake of Lance Armstrong’s Earth shattering confession (that’s sarcasm folks). I have to wonder are we so different from the Roman mob? Are we not entertained? The fact is Armstrong built a better mousetrap. We knew, or should have known when the cycling world began wailing and gnashing its teeth over his success,…
Believe!
We never get too old to hope, to wish, to dream. The mere existence of this blog is proof of that. And we are never too old to set out a plat of cookies for Santa. I have wonderful memories of baking Toll House Cookies on Christmas Eve, naking candy and breads for neighbors and…
Porn in the Morn
Imagine my surprise this morning, when, upon tuning into Book Radio on XM – “…as his tongue split her wet folds…” (I think that’s what she said) – hit my delicate ears. It’s 8:30am on a damn Thursday!! Not sure what Thursday has to do with it, but it seemed important at the time. Now,…
Kids These Days…
“Kids these days have no respect.” “My dad would have whipped my ass for that.” “When I was a kid….” Two recent events, and the reaction of adults on social media got me thinking about this. First, the now infamous dad shooting his daughter’s laptop after her facebook rants were discovered and last week the…
Playing Nice in the Writing Pool
As we embark on this journey to write a series of novels together, we are becoming more and more aware of the challenges. There are a few universal obstacles; time constraints, writers block, finding a market, developing an audience, making plot devices unique and interesting for our characters and potential readers…..the list is long. We…
Dragons in the Basement
We all have them. Sometimes we call them alligators. I like dragons and it’s more apropos for this discussion. There are chocolate dragons, vodka dragons (mine is lemon flavored at the moment), crazy bitch from hell dragons, shoe dragons (notorious for getting off the leash to soothe crazy bitch dragon)…I think you get the point. …