Author Archives: Catherine

We're back from vacay in South Carolina . It was lovely there. I had always suspected that the reason it was so uncrowded and blissful was that we always went in the off season. Now for the first time, I've … Continue reading →

Never has a youtube video spoken to me, personally, nor captured my experience as well as “mom my ride. ” By Zima. You see, a few days ago I woke up and said to myself, “What? Is that a gold-toned … Continue reading →

There have certainly been times in recent months (see for example) when I wished our cat would simply disappear. After she peed on all my stuff in the closet, after she peed directly in my bed when I was up … Continue reading →

There are some things a person just shouldn't watch. One of them is the entire contents of one's life being lifted, tossed, and well stirred. Today is packing day at our house. That means that three very nice professional complete … Continue reading →

 For all his brilliance and accomplishments, Elias is at a very dangerous age: post-mobility, pre-sense. He seems determined to harm himself. He seems magnetically pulled to the item in the room that poses the greatest bodily threat to him. It's … Continue reading →

 One unsung benefit of urban living is that tornadoes generally hop over a city due to the bubble of heat created by all those cars, buildings, and asphalt. Not so out here in the sticks. In Cleveland in nine years … Continue reading →

Our dream of wooded acreage and convenient shopping was slightly marred this week by a gas leak that nearly killed us all in a giant blue whumph. The straight-from-cental-casting hillbilly who came to fix it looked at the situation and … Continue reading →

I posted yesterday but you wouldn't know that because for some reason the notification didn't go. I got suspicious when I toted up three reads in the last 24 hours. That says to me that there was a technical glitch … Continue reading →

This is the point where we ask ourselves: why must we have ice skates AND a sun hat? This is the point where we start to think: all possessions are evil. Let's divest ourselves of everything and live a simpler … Continue reading →

A mother worries. I got a call from the doctor the other day indicating that the bad/scary/threatening testing of my sweet little dumpling's urinary system will be next Wednesday. Since he had a bladder infection, which is not all that … Continue reading →