Tag: family

A Message to my Facebook Friends: I Get it.

Love love love this post. I hope it goes viral!

Living The American Scream

I get it, you love to run and you’re killing it every day in preparation for some ridiculously pointless marathon when we all know the real satisfaction you get is from having enviable legs.

running

I get it, Crossfit has changed your life and you now firmly believe that if everyone did it, they would all be similarly transformed.

crossfit

I get it, you only eat meat and your diet makes you strong like bull.

paleo

I get it, you only eat veggies and secretly wish to lynch bacon-lovers and throttle those who think Vegan is a newly-discovered planet.

vegan

I get it, you don’t really want anyone to know exactly what you’re talking about, but feel compelled to get something off your chest, so you opt for irritating ambiguity, your posts so obscure nobody knows whether it’s actually time to orchestrate an intervention.

vague

We are all to some extent guilty.

I happen to…

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Short Story Sunday: Christmas Orphans (a short random tale)

A wonderful light hearted Christmas tale… no I’m not saying that with a straight face, just read it and share it with all your friends and family.

Vampire Maman

“Why do I have eyes of different colors? The brown eye is my own. The blue eye is a different story. I plucked it from the freshly dead body of a young Irish nun. She’d killed herself because she had a vision that the child she was carrying, the child of the handsome young priest, was the Antichrist.”

“Why were you there Uncle Jeff?” A young voice in a hushed whisper asked.

“Because, my dear, I was the handsome young priest. That was before the life I live now. But I still see visions of angels and of a family in a warm embrace of love, then the fires of Hell with dancing devils and…”

“JEFF. STOP IT,” I yelled. “You’re going to give them nightmares.”

I know better than to ask my crazy brother to tell Christmas stories to my children and their young cousins.

“But, Simon, the stories are…

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A Black Cat, An Old Soldier, and the Art of the Ghost Story.

Click here for: A Black Cat, An Old Soldier, and the Art of the Ghost Story..

A wonderful post – one of the best I’ve read all month.

Happy almost Halloween and tell a ghost story, pet your cat and call up someone you love and tell them (or better yet drive to their house and share a hug),

 

And if you aren’t following The Horrifically Horrifying Horror Blog you’re missing out on a good thing!

MT

Delivered to your door…

A story about taking care of your elders, love and family. Click here for: Delivered to your door….

 

Musings on the curious child…and keeping secrets.

Click here for a bit on parenting, art and curiosity…and a little bit of history: Musings on the curious child…and keeping secrets..

 

Love her for who she is, not what you want her to be…

A little romantic advice from the mistress of romance: Love her for who she is, not what you want her to be….

 

And a lot of common sense thrown in there too!

 

With all the debate on having kids and working my answer is…

I’m going to vent:

I strongly believe that kids who get out in the world and experience the community of other children do better than kids who are isolated at home with only their mothers and siblings. I feel that all kids need to be socialized, just like dogs, or they’ll never be able to catch up once they get to grade school. I also am sick and tired of people who post crap saying that mothers who work don’t do a good job. Working moms do a damn good job are closer to their kids than anyone who writes that crap could ever know, and the children of working mothers are proud of their moms. I don’t know a single working mom who doesn’t think of her kids 24/7, put them first and spend every free moment with those kids. It is about quality with your kids and bringing them up to be strong and happy adults (in my opinion.)

Every family is different and every choice is different – but make sure your choices are educated choices and not just a jacked up gut reaction misguided myths. And stop trying to crap on working moms and the hard choices we have to make.

We’re not going to stop working so deal with it or shut the F up.

For a brief article that I approve see: With all the debate on having kids and working my answer is….