Hugging a Porcupine

Posted by on Sep 30, 2009 in dish | 4 comments DH brought a book home from the library about being the parents of an adolescent the other day. It had a perfect title: How to Hug a Porcupine. And since, more often than not, I’m getting a faceful of quills when trying to deal with Frick these days, it’s proven to be sound advice, more often than not.I always thought I’d be a better parent of a teenager than a young child...
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Bringin’ the Heat

Posted by on Sep 26, 2009 in dish | 0 comments ‘Scuse the baseball analogy, but I’m fixin’ to make it do double duty in a sec. Today was opening day of fall ball for both Frick and Frack, since Frack’s softball opener was rained out Thursday night. So it’s been a loooooooooooong day at the ballpark. BallparkS, that is. Up early to take Frack to her away game, then 1-1/2 hours in the growing heat. By 10:30...
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Band Geek WIN

Posted by on Sep 25, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Tonight was middle school band night at the high school where the denizens of Chez mimi are zoned to attend. Since I’m a proud graduate of that same school, I was especially interested in having young Frick, my aspiring tubist, attend. You see, he plays in a wonderful middle school band. The problem is, most of the kids at his middle school go to a nearly lily-white suburban marquee high...
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What Is It With These People??

Posted by on Sep 23, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know what they’re drinking in Tallahassee, but apparently now there’s yet ANOTHER test we have to administer our kids to find out what’s up with their godforsaken reading scores. This one’s computer-based, though, and will take up two day’s worth of class time that I now can’t spend instructing them. Yeah, that makes sense.You see, apparently the...
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10 Things You Think Are Cool

Posted by on Sep 15, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Facebook. Amazingly, it erases years and awkward social boundaries.iPhones. Totally want one, but will wait patiently for T-Mobile to get its act together.My kids. They are wonderfully talented and funny, and sometimes I wonder how it’s possible that I’m their mom.Convertibles. Once I owned my first (a 1991 Mercury Capri), I was hooked for life.British humor. The world is a better...
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