Author: calm mama

grateful and not-so-much

I have some theories about the powers of the Internet. Specifically that when one writes about something good, the forces of the universe will immediately switch on you (this seemed particularly true when blogging sleep trials and tribulations). So then…

it has a certain ap-peel

Yesterday, we picked an orange off of our front yard tree on the way up the stairs into the house. We’ve rarely had any oranges off this tree since we’ve moved here for a variety of we’re-not-very-good-at-growing-stuff reasons. But it’s…

jonah’s stories

This morning, Jonah told me he had stories to tell. And then he told them, one after the other. I have no idea where the data came from for the Dragon story. The Zebra story is a variation on one…

joy, pain, sunshine, (no) rain

Again with the weeks between posts. What is going on??? Excuse, the first: I’ve been working. As a professional writer/editor, I find that my blogging mojo gets zapped when I am using my powers for good in other areas. Been…