Carb Coma

Today we had the second annual “Lasagna Throwdown” to benefit the music department at the church, and we’re all comatose from the great food! Mexican lasagnas, traditional lasagnas, seafood lasagnas, sauces, more pasta, desserts…the South Beach people would be appalled. But we were happy!Even more fun, some of us performed the Silent Monks’ version of the Hallelujah...
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10 Bad Habits You Can’t Break

ProcrastinatingChewing my cuticlesRelying on deadline adrenalineAvoiding financial issuesNot carrying cashFacebooking too muchDitto with infosnackingLetting the laundry pile upAvoidance behaviorsNot exercising
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Much Ado About Nothing: Presidential Speech Edition

Just in case you’ve been camping on the moon for the past couple of weeks, today President Obama delivered his socialist agenda brainwashing speech to innocent children, better known to those of us who actually use our brains to think as a Presidential Back-to-School address. Seems President Obama, who knows from both his and the First Lady’s backgrounds that a solid education is the...
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R.I.P. Reading Rainbow

Book lovers, get out your black armbands. Today was the last broadcast of PBS’s wonderful children’s series Reading Rainbow.For those of us weaned on The Electric Company and Sesame Street, the advent of Reading Rainbow occurred after we’d progressed from picture books to chapters. Even so, it was easy to get sucked in when a younger sibling or eventually a child of our own...
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Whooooaaaah…Back on the Chain Gang!!

Not really, but today is the first day of school! Kids are in and excited, and my feet are *killing* me!! That’s what I get for wearing cute shoes with my Day 1 outfit, though. It’s all my fault. I’ll be back in Crocs tomorrow (the ladylike ones, not the clown shoes).So far, pretty good, if you don’t count the network crashing halfway through the day so we couldn’t...
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