Every book I write is a journey. I climb into the car with these characters and I have some idea of the trip in mind. Sometimes that idea is our destination, sometimes it’s a time during the trip when we’re [...]
Every book I write is a journey. I climb into the car with these characters and I have some idea of the trip in mind. Sometimes that idea is our destination, sometimes it’s a time during the trip when we’re [...]
Everybody hates the Chore List. None more so than the one that has to make it. No matter what chore list I set up, the whining commences, followed by the labor disputes. Any attempts to point out that the effort [...]
Oddly enough, for not having had a real winter (we were one of the few places that missed just about every snowstorm and cold snap. Good in some aspects, but not so good in others), I’m feeling very glad that [...]
I recently flipped my schedule around in anticipation for Summer Break. I’m usually one of those people who likes to wind up to work by starting the day off and clearing out a bunch of small, easy to do tasks [...]
Monsoon season has come to lovely Ohio, and already the dehumidifiers are working overtime, and the pea-soup air is making my yearly declaration of “no A/C until after school ends” a failure seven days into May. But one thing the [...]
This may come as a shocker to some of you but…I have children. I know, most of the time they act like hairless wild animals, but they are indeed human. And as we all know, summer is coming and with [...]
In my ever-evolving quest for efficiency, I’ve learned a lot of things about myself. One of the things I’ve learned is that I, like my children, have a bad case of The Fidgets. Most parents do, to some degree, because [...]
Cue the cheesy horror flick music, because this post is full of the creepy-factor. Truth is, I bet your task list, like mine, is infested. With zombies.
Now as we all know, zombies happen for one of two reasons–either an outbreak [...]