Next year all our troubles will be out of sight. LIES.

I'm here to give you some gd perspective this holiday season. A pep talk for the holidays. It may not seem like it at first, but stick with me. Here's what I know. When you've fallen off a train, sloppy drunk, going to your parents house for a holiday and hidden bottles of booze all …

Funny Smart Questions and Observations from Toddlers at Christmastime

They're not funny questions or observations to them of course. They're almost three so they question everything. As they should, as we all should. Their wonder is coupled only by their questions and so it balances out.  In fact, you get so used to the non-stop barrage of questions with 2  three-year-olds, that when they …

On Finding Hope and Joy and Goodness in the Midst of this Terrible World

It seems that there is a lot of terrible awful stuff going on in the world, and there really is.  Like, unbelievable, sob in the corner while clasping your blankie terrible stuff.  Racism, dirty politics, religion used for evil, war, starvation, rape, torture, GUNS GUNS GUNS* just to name a few.  Things that you could …