It was unseasonably warm - hot, really - and the kids ran through the sprinkler, smeared with sunblock and laughing over the sound of the ru...

I burned my hand. I made a cake, a beautiful cake using vodka and Kahlua, and it smells like warm heaven. The hot pad slipped when I was pul...

My older daughter had her ultrasound today, at eighteen weeks of pregnancy. "There's no doubt," she said breathlessly afterwar...

Choose a city in a country other than your own, and tell us why you would like to visit there. That was the blogroll topic this week. Despit...

My girl left me a text message earlier. We had talked on the phone this evening, and some time afterward, she sent me the message. She wants...

I've joined a fiction writers' blogroll, forcing me to hit the keyboard a little more often for the made-up stuff. The elements to b...

The Space Age Grandchild is well on his or her way now. My daughter had a doctor's appointment today - she's almost 16 weeks and has...