“There’ll be a lot of kerfuffle.” I remember like it was yesterday my grandmother warning me about an upcoming commotion or fuss or kerfuffle. She was all about anticipating potential disaster. I definitely inherited my “it will end in tears”…
Category: Musings on Me
Retirement Is a Long Way Off…Or Is It?
As a 40-something, retirement seems far off. I’m not ready to retire. Heck. I’m barely back to work after some years off as a stay-at-home mom. Now that I have been back in the workforce for a couple of years,…
Safety Is First and Foremost in Our Home
A week or so ago, I was invited to attend an event in D.C. Though I am quite happy to be a work-at-home mom every now and then I like to pretend that I am a professional working person. I…
Holiday Gift Guide: Keeping Up with Kids, Work, Home with HTC Rhyme
My workday is unpredictable. Some days my mornings start bang on time. I put all three kids on three buses with everything that each could possibly need for the day — backpacks, books, lunchboxes, etc. — and head down to…
Musings from Me on Thanksgiving
I’m not a born and bred American. I grew up in a country where Americans were always called — affectionately — Yanks no matter if they lives in Texas or Alaska or New York City. America was the land of…
Plumbing the Depths of the Backpack
I never had a backpack until I started college. Before college, I carried a satchel or a briefcase to school. My school required all items to be brown, so of course the briefcase was brown leather or more precisely brown…
What I Should Be Doing…
I should be doing this assignment. The subject matter is interesting. I need to get it done tout suite. But, I’m not. The pile of papers to my left comes in to view about every 4.4 seconds but I’m not…
#Yoursphere Halloween Twitter Party October 27 9-10 pm EST
Click, click, click. If you stopped by my home on any given day, you would hear someone clicking away on a PC or playing a game online or tapping on a laptop or playing the wii. As a mom of…
What Is Technology to You? #windowsphone
As a kid in England, technology meant nothing to me. I was as far away from being a tech geek as you could be. My neighbor was super cool as he had an Atari system. Even the little kid I…
Surviving and Living
Last week was quite a week. Last week was the second week of school…it felt like week 40. No honeymoon period for us. We are full tilt in to the whole school thing. Volleyball practice. One of the kids made…
