Mommy Wars: are you serious?

It all started a year ago when I was enjoying my breakfast.  Behind me on the TV there was a commercial playing.  I guy on the screen walking around a grocery buck naked talking about the benefits of sugar.  Really?  We are to the point where we are freely advertising something that is making us [...]

Ill prepared

You hear all of these rumors about how it rains 365 days a year here in the northwest right.  Then the Californians move here and they screw it all up by telling everyone that, “no, it’s really nice here.”  Damn them all.  We tell people it rains all year long to keep the Californians away.  [...]

Land of Lost Dreams

There were so many times during the adoption process that I didn’t think that we’d ever make it through. Somehow I kept going. I kept praying, hoping, wishing and dreaming.
As of late my life has become the land of lost dreams. I seem to have lost my ability to dream. We [...]

Evolutionary Science

You’ve heard me talk about that fact that I live with a card carrying anthropologist, right? I know I have. It is a curse and a gift wrapped up into a giant 6′4″ package that calls himself the eventual ruler of the world. Moreover, he just proclaims that things will be different [...]

Stripping individuality

Besides the heat in California I notice one thing.  Sameness.  Every street corner is the same.  The landscape, wholly uninteresting.  A drug store, grocery store and a Starbucks in every shopping complex.  I’m not joking on the Starbucks.  I think there are more Starbucks in the City of Sacramento than the entire state of Washington.
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