Handyma’am 911

Preschoolers, facial tissue, and toilets are not a good combination. Can anyone give me some good advice on the gentle art of the closet snake?

Maryland’s dirty old man

William Donald Schaefer: the man, the pol, the legend. Or something like that. Anyway, he’s been in some kind of elected office somewhere in Maryland since Mencken’s day, and he’s in the soup again: ANNAPOLIS // Comptroller William Donald Schaefer was unapologetic Wednesday after making suggestive comments to a young female aide to the governor… Continue reading Maryland’s dirty old man

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Four Jobs 1.Clerk in a craft store 2.Clerk and salad-bar tender in a grocery store deli 3.Office Temp 4.Registered Nurse Four Movies I Would Watch Over and Over: 1.Persuasion 2.The Incredibles 3.Tampopo 4.Monsters, Inc Four Places I Have Lived: 1. Durbin, North Dakota 2. Tacoma, Washington 3. San Antonio, Texas 4. Baltimore, Maryland Four TV… Continue reading tagged!

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still not too proud to beg

Dear Mr Dreher: PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE give us the privilege of reviewing your book. We are the Hip Homeschooling Mamas! well, Pansy is, anyway.

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This must mean something.

St Josemaria Escriva’s birthday is January 9. And he shares this birthday with… Severus Snape. This means something. But what?

maybe it’s time to start going to Air and Space instead of Natural History

Spoilers for The Clown of God by Tomie diPaola So it’s bedtime and I’m reading The Clown of God to Hambet (who’s now four and a half!) I’m trying not to tear up as we approach the climax of the book. And then we turn the page, and there is poor Giovanni, dead on the… Continue reading maybe it’s time to start going to Air and Space instead of Natural History