Waking up this morning with a cup of *Republic Darjeeling Black Tea; stepping back for a moment to pause and reflect on the last few months in geishaland, since I really haven’t done so in a while – as well as throwing in a few random scattered thoughts here and there on this lovely Thursday [...]

I’m crushed. Bereft even. My son has a girlfriend. The other afternoon when it was raining here he waited by her bus stop with an umbrella so she wouldn’t get wet when he walked her home. I can’t take it. I can’t get the little brat to clean up his [...]

Maybe there really is something in the air? I have to say, I usually expect this kind of thing in the spring; those all too familiar voices of discontent emanating from hubby about how he’s getting old and is bored out of his skull and why can’t he go back on the road again [...]

Another Christmas has come and gone. We’re burnt out on visiting family, eating strange cuisine, and exchanging gifts with loved ones. It isn’t that I don’t like Christmas, but from a mother’s point of view, it’s a lot of damn work! I keep reminding myself that the real joy of the [...]