We went to Target for advent calendars and it turned into a whole thing

We went to Target yesterday to get two chocolate advent calendars.  You know the paper kind with the windows you open up until Christmas and get a terrible chocolate each day? Yeah, those.  Well, they didn’t have any.  Instead, here is what happened. In typical going to Target for one thing fashion, we walked out …

For all this I am thankful – but mostly for pie

For donuts at the library for the third time this week, where there's always a yoga class or story time or just one more book we need to get before we can leave. For another Thanksgiving sober, instead of one like years ago where I fell off the train drunk as my parents arrived to pick …

In defense of the quitters

The word quit gets a bad rap. The mere thought of quitting makes some folks break out in hives.  You know QUITTERS NEVER WIN AND WINNERS NEVER QUIT and so on and so forth. Well, I'm here in defense of the quitters.  I'm here to say I'm a quitter and quitters do quit and are …