I am spending a lot of my time thinking of L’s other mother.  Tomorrow is L’s birthday.  If the information we have is correct (and I have some reason to believe to at least some of it may be accurate) two years ago, L’s mother was spending her last day (or days?) with L. 
In my mind, I can […]

Last weekend, Mr. A swore he heard a mouse in our kitchen. 
Because we live on a kind of wooded lot, this is not that surprising.  We usually get a few mice each fall, but every once in a while one of the greedy little bastards will sneak in during other parts of the year.
I still wasn’t […]

I woke up Sunday and my anger about the dog situation was gone.  I have reached the point where I can acknowledge that we can’t do anything about what the neighbors choose to do.  We can only control our ourselves and how we choose to react to the situation we are in.
Mr. A and I […]

As of a conversation with Mrs. Neighbor this morning, they intend to keep the dog. 
I also plan to pursue every possible legal way to force them to obey the local vicious dog ordinance.  They obviously made this decision with no regard to our feelings (or finances because this might wreck our property value), so I […]

I don’t know if other people do this, but from time to time I find myself in the middle of an emotional, somewhat irrational fit.  You know, the kind where you can kind of float outside your body and think “Self, you are really getting too carried away.  You should dial it back a little.  […]