Less than three weeks until the girl child graduates from high school. It’s hard not to feel like I’m running out of time with her. Hard not to look back and think of things I wish I’d handled differently. Starting way back to when she started kindergarten. She was one of the youngest kids in [...]
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Revising What I Can
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, Writing information and tips, tagged cheryl klein, ReVision, Second Sight By Cheryl Klein, word frequency counter on May 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A Mish Mash
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, tagged A Children's Book Festival in La Mesa, kelly bennett on May 22, 2012 | 6 Comments »
My brain is a mish mash of distraction at the moment. I haven’t been able to settle on one post topic, so here goes a mash and mish. 1) Happy Birthday to my dear sweet hubby! The world is a better place because he’s in it. He’s looking awfully nifty today… 2) Congratulations to my [...]
Children’s Book Festival in La Mesa Countdown: 3 Days
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, Uncategorized, tagged and Rene Colato, Billy Martinez, Children's Book Festival in La Mesa, DJ MacHale, Donald Samson, Eleanore GarnerMara Price, Henry Josh and Harrison Herz, James Burks, James Luna, Kathryn Cloward, kelly bennett, Kevin Gerard, Lin Oliver, Mark Ludy, Ned Vizzini, PJ Haarsma, Rich Arons, Samantha Cerney, Steve Gray, Terry Naughton, Theo Baker, Tom Kirkbride on May 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Yikes! The book festival is only three days away. I mentioned in a previous post that I am on the planning committee for the Children’s Book Festival in La Mesa here in San Diego. Time is closing in on us and the festival is only three days away. Are we ready? Only time will tell. We’ve ordered [...]
Mother’s Day with the Gabors
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, tagged Gabors, Mother's Day on May 15, 2012 | 4 Comments »
On Saturday we celebrated our 2nd annual Gabor Mother’s Day Celebration. Now I must admit right here, I am not actually related to the Gabor family. This is just a nickname that I have lovingly given to my mom and aunts based on their behavior when they get together. To make my point here were [...]
World Book Night (goes to the movies)
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, tagged Andrea Zimmerman, free books, Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, WORLD BOOK NIGHT on April 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was WORLD BOOK NIGHT – a celebration designed to spread a love of reading and books. Started in the United Kingdom, this was the first one for the United States. Special paperback versions of several books (for all ages) were printed for the purpose of being distributed – for free. The idea was to [...]
Reason to Procrastinate #25- Michele Made Me
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, Uncategorized, tagged crafts from recycled items, Reasons to procrastinate on April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I know I should be writing, but I got a little distracted. I found this great website I can’t stop checking out. Michele Made Me is filled with great crafts made from recycled items found around the house. A great example is the basket above, made from old cereal boxes and yarn. This little ornament is [...]
Glazed Doughnut Cupcakes
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate on April 3, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I was searching for a recipe for brunch this weekend and found this yummy recipe on the Sweet Peas Kitchen website. I thought I would pass this on to our readers. Glazed Doughnut Muffins For the Muffins: 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup brown sugar 2 large eggs [...]
Fun Friday! No Cook Valentine’s Day Treat
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I found this recipe on the Divine Party Concepts site while searching for a Valentine treat for the family. This pretty little dessert uses Twikies and 2 other ingredients. What could be easier than that? Ingredients 3 Tbsp seedless red rasberry jam 1 cup fresh raspberries 2 Twinkies snack cakes Preparation 1. Stir jam and [...]
Discovery
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, tagged art changes the world, art drop, Erik Wahl, the art of vision on February 2, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Email Subject: OMG, Tanner found Jesus. Hmmm… I thought. I’d never known the friend sending the message to be particularly religious. But not sarcastic or flip either. OMG? Turns out his son, Tanner, was riding home from school and spotted a painting in the canyon. He immediately recognized the painting as the work of Erik [...]
Routines and Not
Posted in A million and two reasons to procrastinate, tagged kissing the earth, light and dark, Sharry Wright, suburban pig, Tamara Ellis Smith, walking on January 19, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Each morning Luna and I take basically the same walk. We walk the perimeter of our housing development, seeing a lot of sameness. The houses looks like a lot of the same – something our homeowner’s association takes very seriously. The landscaping is a lot of the same. And we see a lot of the [...]
