My post, "Teen Drinking, Sex, Curfews, and Partying. (What We Do)," which I wrote last year, is a featured post at On the Flipsid...

Last week, I hit my two-year blogging anniversary. I've now been blogging for 739 days and I've amassed 870 posts. Obviously, I po...

On July 2nd, my dad's four kids and their kids (and some significant others) and Lou, Dad's POSLQ ("person-of-the-opposite-sex-...

Once upon a time, not so very long ago ( July of '06 , to be exact), I started this blog. Within just a few days of my first post, I di...

I work morning, all day and all evening (and into the night), then dream/torment/agonize about work all night in a bizarre state somewhere b...

I was treated to a bright spot in the middle of an otherwise absolutely insane day today: I finally had a chance to visit with my blogging b...

Readers from 99 countries have visited my blog. I keep waiting for someone from a hundredth country to show up, but for weeks now my Neocou...

I used to begin my morning with a leisurely cup of coffee, my warm fuzzy robe and slippers, my kitty in my lap and my personalized Google Re...

Remember way back in February when I posted about the Pay-It-Forward phenomenon that was going around the blogosphere, and that I was lucky...

I haven't been a good blogger lately. That goes for both reading others' blogs and writing my own. During the ten months since I...

No, not here. I don't have any plans to put ads on this blog in the foreseeable future. It's not that I don't want money for bl...

I love Google Reader because it updates me in real time about the blogs and websites I've asked it to monitor. Many of these are blogs ...

Every so often I come across a product that I just really like, and in those cases it's not beyond me to gush and brown-nose and sing pr...

I'm enjoying this breakfast, as I do every day, while I work on a post that -- unlike this one -- actually has some substance to it. (Th...

Help me! I've been sucked into the black hole of blogging: I have come to the end of the universe of blogging topics. That's right ...

You asked! You really asked ! And so, I answer: Becky asks: What is your favorite Christmas tradition and what tradition do you wish you h...

Some of my favorite bloggers, like MetroDad , Nothing But Bonfires and, of course, Pioneer Woman , have a regular feature that I've alw...

Swenglishexpat , of Fruits of My Mind , has been kind enough to bestow upon me the "Roar for Powerful Words" award. I'm hono...

Jennifer McNary was the most popular girl in my 5th grade class. I admired her. I adored her. I wanted to BE her. Jennifer was just shy en...

Ambra, over at Quasi Italiana has bequeathed upon me the Nice Matters Award , saying " I hope it is not the hundredth one you've r...