weapons of massdistraction

My friend is dead. We hadn’t seen each other in a while, and we didn’t always get along when we did, but he was a friend. He features prominently in my memories, of a certain time in my life. Throughout high school we were a large (though tight knit) group…a merry band of misfits [...]

The other night was especially hot and humid. To escape our stifling non-air-conditioned abode I dragged the little man out and about…to run less-than-essential errands (one involved driving to a co-op in our sister city, just to pick up vegan marshallows, which, until recently, couldn’t be obtained locally, only online). It was double the [...]

The little man and I are ill. Again. Last schoolyear we picked up all kinds of crud from his classmates, but at some point we seemed to build up an immunity. His summer school program, however, has thrown some new kids into the mix. Different kids = new and complex germ factories. The lad [...]

Good things have always come out of Seattle, but this time it’s personal. First it was the bequeathment of fine footwear by Receptionista, to me. More recently an awesome mix CD arrived in the mail from the stellar Starbody. I popped it in several times over the weekend but I finally listened to it [...]

Some randomness for this fine Friday morning. In the spirit of the fifty pound rice bags, the husband has continued his supersizing efforts. I came home yesterday to find a five pound tub of peanut butter in our fridge (the hippie co-op kind has to be refrigerated, in case you’re wondering). The little man [...]