Relaxing weekend

I had a nice, relaxing weekend after a busy week in Anaheim, California, for the ALA Annual Conference. I was wiped out after flying back overnight Tuesday, zipping through 4 timezones in fifteen hours and arriving in my hometown Wednesday morning– without any sleep. I was so sleepy I was dizzy. I thought connected chairs without [...]

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Is the week over yet?

I hope I can make it one more day to the weekend. This week was busier than I imagined it would be. Being sleep deprived hasn’t helped any, either. It makes it harder to cope with stressful stuff, like when my son’s middle school called me on Monday asking if I could help them track down the [...]

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Full week ahead

Can I take a vacation from my life? Is there a place where moms can go to escape the demands of work, family, and home, without having anyone file a missing persons report because the dirty dishes piled up? If we didn’t have so much junk under our beds, maybe I could hide out there. Or [...]

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Baseball victory

While I was out of town last week, I got an urgent phone call from my son. I was in a restaurant waiting for our meal to come when I got the call. He doesn’t usually call me when I’m out of town and rarely has much to say if I try to talk to [...]

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