Blog Posts - Minutiae

I'm not doing so so hot with the keeping up on the blog thingy this year.  It seems every time I get ready to jump back into the regular, some tragedy happens and then I fall off the wagon again.  But that doesn't mean I haven't been docume...

I was raking leaves the other day, before the temperatures here rose to Arizona-type levels in December.  It was still pretty cold and as I looked down I noticed that i had uncovered a little rat snake, all curled up in a knot and almost frigid.

Meant to do this earlier, but this month has been extremely busy. Here's a round up of our Halloween festivities. Minutiae style.chickenpotchickenpotchickenpotpie Pumpkin carving goes much faster with power tools.chickenpotchickenpotchickenpotpieHere...

Time to clean off the photos on my phone.  But before I do that, a joke:  Why did the turtle cross the road?Probably in some sort of dangerous hazing stunt wherein if he caused a white Subaru to run off the road and into a ditch while...

A series of loving, yet helpful and communicative text messages between me and my husband. Now imagine the stuff that I didn't deem fit to republish on the Interweb.chickenpotchickenpotchickenpotpieAre you home?Who dis?I'll take that as a yes. chicke...

Every once in awhile I get nervous that I'm going to randomly lose all the photos on my phone and I transfer them, one by one to a computer... so I can lose them there.  It takes several hours sometimes.  I've taken a lot of photos over the...

Over the winter break, I spent way more time with my children than is socially acceptable. Finally we came home, started back to school for one day and then a Polar Vortex came our way and closed or delayed school for, in this order: snow, freezing r...

Hey, everybody, the memory on my phone is full.  You know what that means? Another issue of "stuff I found on my phone." chickenpotchickenpotchickenpotpie Every morning this summer, I've driven The Shortlings to camp across this one lane bri...

The runways are already being laid for New York fashion week, which begins next week. But not for Band of Outsiders. Instead of a traditional runway show, the menswear label is staging a scavenger hunt. Two models—Matt Hitt and Miles Garber—will...

I take photos all the time and then leave them on my hard drive, hoping they will grow into a real boy blog post someday. Often, I eventually receive inspiration and use them.  Sometimes I just get tired of looking at them and the non-inspiratio...

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I've been away for a week.  Am trying to get my head wrapped around the idea of going to work and caring for children each day.  Did you know they want to be fed THREE times a day and about half the time you have to help them wipe their but...

It's summer.  (Newsflash, huh?)  For a variety of reasons, I am having a hard time committing to anything at this point... at least anything more complicated than sitting on the couch in my underwear watching TV.  And even then sometim...

See what I did there? Water restrictions were lifted Sunday and our power came back last night.  Hip, hip, yay. Overall, it was a pain in the butt.  But that's all it was.  I guess my main annoyance is in the fact that when we first mo...

The KingofHearts took off for a retreat of sorts a little while ago.  His thought was he'd spend the entire weekend alone, without distractions, and he could write and work on his novel.  (That's not nearly as douche-y as it sounds, but he'...

At church, they encourage everyone to have a family night once weekly.  While I agree with this in principle, I find it very difficult to work in a structured family home evening where there's a lesson and a song and someone makes refreshments.&...

As previously mentioned, I have ended my sale on my first book, Musings on Minutiae. It was $0.99 for a year and hopefully you, the reader, took advantage of the great price! If you did pick up a copy of the book, it’d mean the world to me if y...

At this point in our relationship, my dear reader, I already know you to be a person of supremely admirable qualities. I know because you are reading this blog. You are rare indeed. Really. Do you know that fifty percent of human beings — a stagger...

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