Internet Bard

I have an awful confession to make: I like Taco Bell. Well, wait just a minute. Let me amend that. I like the food at Taco Bell. My commute is anywhere from a half hour to an hour each way depending on traffic, but there really aren’t that many dining options between work and home. [...]

I spent an unusual amount of time on Sunday staring into my closets. Before last week’s vacation, I considered using my abundant free time sans job, husband and kids creating content. I briefly entertained the idea of churning out stories, blog posts, videos and more of the digital ephemera that seems to represent my creative [...]

This is it. I am officially declaring bandwidth bankruptcy. [For our purposes, "bandwidth" = "my ongoing, finite capacity of time and energy."] Effectively, I have failed to balance my time and energy budget for at least the last year, probably longer. A little over a month ago, I agreed to take on a pro-bono web [...]

Tonight is the very last LOST. Six years ago, I was a hot mess.  In 2001, my marriage went pear-shaped in a major way.  I spent most of 2002 dealing with the aftermath of that, until late in the year my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.  I spent most of 2003 dealing [...]

My son doesn’t have a birth certificate.. He was born in Japan, so he has a “Consular Report of Birth” instead.  When he was born, the nurse at the military hospital told me “If you ever lose it, you have to request a replacement from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.”  I once lost my own [...]