Category Archives: Home Life

So this is 2014

It doesn’t feel any different.

The first day of January is always a bit of a slap in the face. It’s always so sudden to me. Maybe because November and December are always really stressful, what with the holidays, one very important professional meeting, the onset of winter, and wrapping up my big introductory geology class.

And then suddenly, it’s over.Continue reading “So this is 2014”

Things in the Fridge – The Aftermath – Old Skool

It’s the day after Christmas. A day spent by many recovering from the prior day’s festivities. In most cases, a Christmas celebration involves preparing massive quantities of food. Naturally, no family can ever hope to consume all that food. So what happens to the leftovers?

They go in the ‘fridge, of course.

Today, the Kickin it Old Skool Blog-a-Thon challenges us to show you ten things in our refrigerator.Continue reading “Things in the Fridge – The Aftermath – Old Skool”

Holiday Disasters – or Why I Dread Christmas – Old Skool

Today, on the Eve of Christmas – the huge, over-commercialized holiday – we are asked in the Kickin’ it Old Skool Blog-a-Thon to tell of any holiday disasters.

I’m having a hard time with this one. I often feel melancholy at Christmas and frankly feel that I could do without this holiday altogether. Only that there’s all this pressure. Continue reading “Holiday Disasters – or Why I Dread Christmas – Old Skool”

The Gifts of Autism

I live with autism.

Not in myself, but through my son, who was given the diagnosis of PDD-NOS a few years back. His autism is considered ‘high-functioning,’ which poses all sorts of challenges.

You’d think it’d be ‘better’ than being ‘severely’ autistic, but the problem is with high-functioning, his autism is invisible. When the stims and other autistic tendencies arise from an otherwise ‘normal’ kid, eyebrows are raised and sometimes we get scowled at in the I-could-raise-your-kid-better sort of way.Continue reading “The Gifts of Autism”