by Dawn | Nov 29, 2012 | family, religion, satire
I never make it through my Christmas card list. Every year I try, every year I fail. If I start too early, I feel like a department store putting Santa out before Halloween. The news in the cards becomes outdated. Then I don’t want to send them. If I start...
by Dawn | Nov 25, 2012 | family, food, organization, satire, simplicity, sustainability
I have no common sense. If Thomas Paine gave me an autographed copy of his opus, I’d still lack common sense. Some would say this makes me creative. People like me would say this, for example. Others would say this makes me a disaster of epic proportion waiting...
by Dawn | Nov 23, 2012 | family, food, organization, satire, simplicity, sustainability
Thanksgiving snuck up on me. It was a busy year–buying and selling a house, doing the staging, showing, and construction leading up to the sale/purchase, moving, dealing with the “finer points of education reform,” writing, creating, blogging,...
by Dawn | Nov 21, 2012 | family, music, parenting, religion, satire, simplicity, sustainability
Christmas appeared early this year in our local stores–about three weeks before the Fourth of July, I think. It’s not that I don’t love the site of a freshly-decorated fake tree with a pine-smelling air freshener trying to convince me it’s...
by Dawn | Nov 19, 2012 | education reform, family, politics, satire, Teaching
I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who stops by. When I started this blog, I figured, “What’s the worst that can possibly happen? I’ll write something, and nobody will read it.” I’ll probably have five loyal...
