My family is having Thanksgiving dinner without me today.
My mom and my brothers, along with the rest of their families, will gather around a table and turkey, 1400 miles to the north of me in a small ranch house in Iowa.  They’ll laugh and they’ll eat and they’ll make fun of one another.  They’ll take [...]

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“Mom, when are we going to change houses again?”
Emma doesn’t speak to me for the first half of our morning drive to daycare.  I think it takes her that long to get over being pissed about having to get up in the morning.  I can tell she’s over it when she suddenly launches into conversation.
“I [...]

“Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!”
-Dr. Seuss
Now that Hilly has had a chance to tell you herself, it’s OK for me to talk about it here.
Hilly hasn’t been here for the last week just visiting.  She’s been checking out the area to decide if it’s a good place for her [...]

Sunday marked one year since we left our families behind in Iowa and moved to Florida.
If I’m being completely honest, that’s part of the reason I didn’t turn on the computer this weekend. I knew that in the computer was this blog, this place where I’ve documented every moment of this transition, this place [...]

“And your middle name is Lynn?”
“Um, no, it’s Marie, actually…” I rechecked the official documents the DMV site had told me to bring. Surely I was still capable of getting my middle name right.
“Oh, yes, I see. Sorry, that was your marriage certificate. His middle name is Lynn,” the woman with heavy [...]

Sunday was The Day. The Day I was headed out for my first meetup.
I’ll admit, I was nervous. And although I had received a few emails and comments from a couple of women involving the words “beer and wine” and “bitches that rock” and “fuck shit damn hell” – I kind of half [...]

Hello?  *tap, tap*  Hello?
Is there anyone left?  I know I’ve abandoned you for… for… well it might as well be forever with the average attention span of a blogger.
I’m sorry.  I know.  I’ve been very, very bad and a select few of you will be allowed to punish me.  No, not you.  You, sit down. [...]

Fucking. A.
I just got done paying bills.  And I know – a part of life and blah blah blah.  And its not the bills or the money or any of that necessarily that annoys me.  It is, specifically, where the fuck my money is going right now.
My two biggest expenditures for the month were not [...]