I don't feel a whit healthier than I did three days ago. Today all three kids were home. Babushka did not have a full-on temper tantrum at my continued presence on her turf, but she did catch herself starting to cuss out the kids at least twice...

The younger two are sick. Mouse has been home all week, and Riley Dino was home yesterday and today. I have the early stages of it myself. If it weren't for the climate of fear accompanying this year's flu season, I would cheerfully be working my...

Thanks, @Anonymous. I can't believe that other people didn't jump all over that meme idea. I refuse to believe that the rest of you don't have unanswered existential or deeply personal questions rattling around in your heads. For the record, my...

Most of you only know my mother-in-law from reading this blog and therefore visualize her as an ancient, crazed Russian peasant woman in a headscarf, emerging periodically from an earthen cellar in my townhouse to proclaim impending doom, cuss me out,...

I left the office around quarter to five and, to my surprise, found myself home early enough to intercept Dino Spouse and the kids before they embarked on their Friday night rounds (fast food and retail). We went to eat at Famous Dave's, picked up...