I really don’t know what to write about today. Auntie says I should be writing about my issues about my age – I don’t have any, but she thinks I should because HER birthday is this coming Friday, which makes me OLD. Auntie is going to be seventeen. When I was seventeen, she turned three […]

We’re slowly easing our way out of the perpetual holiday mode and back into real life. With a stop at birthday crazy on the way. Fortunately, after this weekend, all the birthday crazy will be OVER and we can go back to our real lives. Which means that I have to confront the real, solid […]

I don’t remember when I started begging to have my ears pierced, but it was probably around age seven. There is an infamous piece of video that was shot when I was eight, and we were preparing to move from Seattle proper to the wilds of the Eastside, where I am wearing clip-on earrings until […]

And now… Tad’s turn. All those good day hand stamps he’s not getting? The kid has recess issues. He’s doing very well IN class… it’s the whole OUT of class part that seems to trip him up. The sand-throwing issues persist. But inside the classroom… his speech therapist tells me that Tad may not qualify […]