Muphry’s Law in action
The corollary to the famous Murphy’s Law (“anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”) is, of course, Muphry’s Law, …
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People are crazy, part 46
One of the things I simultaneously love and fear about the internet is the ability of the world to comment …
Cigarettes killed the radio star.
Note: this didn’t start out being inflammatory, but I recognize that inflammatory is exactly what it has become. Do me …
It’s December 18th, and I’m begging myself not to start knitting something.
Fact 1: I have not finished my Christmas shopping. Fact 1a: Full disclosure: I’m not even sure I’ve STARTED my …
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea.”
I’m quoting Abe Lincoln here because I didn’t want to use a common paraphrase of one of his really famous …
Eldrick, Eldrick burning bright…
There’s that story told about a little boy, apparently healthy, born to healthy parents, who wouldn’t talk. No matter what anyone …
Now I get it: I’m living in a Twilight Zone episode.
One thing that’s really fun about having kids is watching them experience things for the first time that are old …
And now a recorded word from your doctor.
Or my doctor, rather. Thanks to those pesky HIPAA laws, I’m not even sure anyone’s allowed to admit that they …
Cover me, I’ve got playground duty.
First, the third-graders organize: https://mominterrupted.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/chickens-are-not-organized/ So it follows that the teachers would get wise: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-teacher4apr04,1,2917312.story Insert your own joke….here.
That was no basset hound; that was my wife!
Just in case you’re wondering, that’s not a picture of me up there. That’s Elmer, the Infamous Basset Hound, being …
Mom, Interrupted 