Confession: Not a fan of Labor Day. Now that school always starts before Labor Day, the holiday comes just when you’ve started to get back into normal school year routine (if you live in a household governed by school year routine, like we do)….

97 degrees. Delightful. It’s hard to have that back-to-school feeling when you all want to do is not move. Speaking of not moving, God sent me a sign at the gym today. Literally – a sign about a five-week boot camp starting up. It’s…

Yesterday was my favorite day in a long time. Seven hours of work at the library with my crew—JD and the Sister Wives—during which I read through all of book #3 and took notes and ascertained that while it did not fill me with…

I had high hopes of returning to my former glory today, but the bod says no and if there’s one thing I learned in the last seven days is don’t make the bod do what the bod is not ready to. Three-hour naps (sometimes…

So, actually I’ve had strep throat for a week and didn’t know it. It was really weird – I didn’t have a fever until six days after my first symptoms, and I had a couple of days during the week I felt well enough to…