Dh & I will be attending a wedding in a couple of weekends' time. The bride is one of his cousin's three daughters, the middle o...

Thank you for all the lovely comments on my last post --  an explanation of my anxiety-induced, self-enforced, week-long hiatus from bloggin...

(Loribeth taps the microphone.)  Hello... is anyone still out there?? It's been a LOOONNNGGGG week. Last Friday night, I came hom...

Last week, one of the girls in my office gave birth to a baby girl -- prematurely, from the sounds of it (the baby was under 5 lbs). There w...

Dh's 55th birthday was this week. By many definitions, that makes him a senior citizen (!), or at least eligible for some seniors' d...

Jjiraffe at Too Many Fish to Fry has been running an excellent series called Faces of ALI , telling detailed personal stories of ALI blogger...

If there is one things I've learned in almost 14 years as a bereaved mother, it's that grief has its own timetable -- and mine may b...