Everydaystranger

I’ve been thinking about something, as I tend to do since my brain never shuts off, even when it should do. It’s honestly not based on any one thing that is going on or has gone on in my life, it’s just what it is. My thoughts.
Forgiveness is trumpeted as being the pinnacle [...]

Not the film with Robin Williams, although I do love him a lot.
When you have babies you feel like you have to hit the world of toys running. Everything has lights! Everything flashes! Every Amazon product has a stellar rating and everyone is shouting about how their baby would have simply expired [...]

After joining Good Reads I’ve honestly been having a grand time listing the books I’ve read and reviewing them. I have seen others reading books I want to read and had a recommendation from Genie. In short, I’m loving the website.
I haven’t forgotten about the virtual book club, either, and will have a [...]

We’ve run into a problem. We have a diagnosis, a horrible one, that we are trying to undertand, face, and stare down as a family. It first started the other day, we first witnessed it in Nora. We thought it was nothing.
We were wrong.
There she was, a dark red color in her [...]

Hi.
I’m an aubergine.

Some of you might also know of me as an eggplant. Either way, it’s cool. I’m still me.
You might wonder why I’m writing this blog, and I’m here to tell it as is. Helen and Angus arrived in Larnaca, Cyprus on Friday (Helen was, the truth must be told, smelling [...]

The cavalry arrived last night with far too much luggage and big smiles for the babies. I told the nursery that my family may or may not be dropping off the babies at nursery, and got the necessary permissions for it.
“What do your family look like?” I was asked, as they got the authorization [...]

Kicked off by this whole Valentine’s Day thing, I’ve been thinking about love. Yes, I know Valentine’s Day is trite. I know it’s thought up by the greeting card companies to part us from our cash and soak us in naffly packaged boxes of sweets and pink stuffed gorillas that seem a good [...]

…which, I’m sorry, but she does. I can’t understand why there is no social responsibility for the fact that she already has 6 children (all under the age of 7)and just had octuplets. And she doesn’t work. And she lives at home. And she only wanted them because she has Only [...]

It’s about priorities.
Having them, knowing them, and not taking advantage of them.
Priorities.
For so long we’ve prioritized everything in our lives – the children, above all. Nick and Nora, but certainly Melissa and Jeff, who are a post in and of themselves this week. The house. Jobs. Money. Everything but us. [...]

Sometimes – and this may come as no surprise – people really fuck me off.
I never blog about the emails that I get because that’s pretty mean – you write me, it’s private, it should stay that way. I do get emails and anyone who has emailed me knows how completely and utterly hopeless [...]

I’m really a product of TV. TV is living. TV is the air, the wind, and the fire. To hell with that love stuff, that’s just like the caramel on top of the already spectacular hot fudge sundae you’ve got brewing. I’m like Frank Cross was – my childhood was TV, [...]

God.
I’m so fucking tired it may be possible to keel over dead.
The insomnia is rough. Really rough. On Thursday night I had a grand total of one hour of sleep. One. Uno. En. You know what I mean. Saturday night I was up at 3 am. This [...]