Posts filed under Pathetic

I feel like I’m waking up from some kind of dream/hallucination in which I had major surgery to remove my appendix while 4 months pregnant; went to two Thanksgivings; celebrated my husband’s 30th and my 29th birthdays; took care of a child with a cold and a double ear infection; wrote a statistics paper and [...]

In the 2 or so years since I last logged on to eBay, I seem to have forgotten just how addicting this site can be.  Over the weekend, in my internet searching (ok, scouring) for a rocker for the new baby’s nursery that isn’t butt-ugly (a-la granny gliders in drapery-type fabrics), I happened over to [...]

Okay, here’s your fair warning that this post is kind of gross. You still have time to scoot off and read The Family Circle or something.
Currently, I’m being torn apart by a paradox. Something’s going on and I have two complete opposite ways of reacting. I can only do one and both [...]

Megan, Hazel, and I all love the library. We typically have about half a dozen books out at any one time, which makes me proud. I always wanted to live in a big, old house with packed-to-the-gills bookshelves in every nook. And while we don’t live in that house yet, I can [...]

Work is a bear right now, albeit a rather friendly bear that only chases you up gumdrop trees and, once cornering you, just mauls you a little bit with filed down claws. Still, I have a few things to report:

I am addicted to blog theme redesign. I simply cannot help myself lately; I find a [...]

Lord Moulton, an English judge, gave a speech a little less than a century ago in which he discussed the three domains of man. On one side, he described an anarchic realm of complete free will—everyone does whatever they like without any consequences. Diametrically opposed to this we find a world of totalitarian enforcement in [...]