Virgin: Really? A girl in a tree?

Hey! My boss has a great post over at  Laggylife’s Blog, so pop over and read it first, then come back. I started a comment for her post, but it got tooooo large, so I migrated it here! GO! Then come back! Virgin is a very clever marketer, but as Laggy says, marketing and advertising [...]

Pandemic rule #1: keep your friends close

In my real working life, that one aside from single-parenting three kids, raising three animals and 17 fishy things, feeding all 23 of them and clothing the human ones, and keeping the house from falling down and/or catching on fire, I have some real connection to the pandemic. I work on pandemic “stuff.” If you [...]

Monday rant, #5

Taberon Kaiju, Tokidoki Version, is Italian designer Simone Legno’s contribution to the Kaiju For Grown Ups project. My oldest son, Graydon, is fascinated by these. I’ve chosen this one as my rant visual. The weekend is over and it’s time to detoxify for the week ahead! My rant this week is all about my car, [...]

Come on kids, play the Brussels sprouts game!

Warning: if you think this is going to be a clever, smarty-pants parenting trick that’ll get Brussel sprouts down your kids’ gullet, keep on clicking. This was sent to me by my littlest sister, Juli, because she is one of those people who always finds the cool stuff on the web. And as she pointed [...]

It’s a joke, but if you’re easily offended, keep on clicking!

My sister sent me this yesterday, and I laughed so loud people down the hall asked what was so funny At first I thought it was one of those mass mailouts that everyone would get, but when I asked my sis, she said it was from a friend, so what the heck. Here it is: [...]

Monday Rant #4: step on up and join the raving!

Taberon Kaiju, Tokidoki Version, is Italian designer Simone Legno’s contribution to the Kaiju For Grown Ups project. My oldest son, Graydon, is fascinated by these. I’ve chosen this one as my rant visual. The weekend is over and it’s time to detoxify for the week ahead! I’ve toyed with the idea of opening up my [...]

Things I Love Thursday: cartoons and a contest!

Over at The Diaper Diaries, it’s time for Jill’s weekly “Things I Love Thursday” blog carnival. A couple of weeks ago I did my TILT (Things I Love Tursday) posting and held a contest to give away what I loved. It was a success, and I’m doing it again. I love cartoons. When I was [...]

Rant list #3: step on up and join the raving!

Taberon Kaiju, Tokidoki Version, is Italian designer Simone Legno’s contribution to the Kaiju For Grown Ups project. My oldest son, Graydon, is fascinated by these. I’ve chosen this one as my rant visual. The weekend is over and it’s time to detoxify for the week ahead! My list (for public consumption, mind): ludicrous advertising slogans—”Change [...]

A simple case of tummy ache

This beautiful image is from www.bittbox.com. I have a couple of kids with some issues, both of whom have made great strides. My little Luka, seven years old, has had me going between the extremes of thinking he is a sponge and has soaked up all this unrest and stress and is hiding it very [...]

Friday’s post a few days late; a stress-relieving game; rant list #2

Taberon Kaiju, Tokidoki Version, is Italian designer Simone Legno’s contribution to the Kaiju For Grown Ups project. My oldest son, Graydon, is fascinated by these. I thought this one looked like a good rant visual. Yes, pretend it’s Friday, and here goes the post. (Why pretend it’s Friday? Because I didn’t post on Friday, and [...]