It might seem to a casual observer, someone who had once, at some point before this past mid-August, stepped foot in, peered around the corner at, or passed through my kitchen, that all that’s different now is the position of the island and the presence of two Ikea bar stools […]
This post is sponsored by Pure Protein. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I’ve said it before but it remains a fact worth repeating, a flag I’ll proudly keep on waving: I’m not one of those back to school cheerleaders. Don’t get me wrong; I dig the shopping, the […]
My girls went back to school this week…well, they went back to school yesterday and are back at home today because the a/c in many of their school’s buildings and rooms is out of commission and it’s 94 degrees here in southeastern Pennsylvania, so…….no school just as school started anew. […]
This post is sponsored by Pure Protein. All thoughts and opinions expressed below are honesty and unbiased, as always A lot of parents, too many parents if you ask me, mourn the end of the school year and cheer on the dawn of the next. You probably have, or will […]
The application window for the 2017 Disney Dreamers Academy is now open! If you’re the proud parent, grandparent or guardian of an outstanding high school kid, you need to encourage them to apply to be one of the fortunate 100 kids who will be chosen to attend the 2017 Disney […]
I didn’t know enough in time to opt out last year. I know more now and so the girls are not taking the state’s standardized tests this school year — happening right now — because we’re taking a stand against test making & test grading corporations getting boatloads of cash […]
Thanks to The Network Niche, today’s post is sponsored by Music & Arts. Should I listen to The Epic (quite literally), nearly 3-hour long Kamasi Washington album a few more times straight through, there may be a cardiac situation in my home. This is because a tiny piece of me […]
I’ve written it many times before, here and elsewhere, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but that profoundly simple Frederick Douglass quote has been my mantra for decades and as such, it is a line I deliver often today […]
