They will say I love youfor your hippie cachet,and oh,that did draw me to you.You are alwaysearthy,expansive,alternative. If I wore socks(handmade,fair trade,hempand organic cotton)you would not look like sandalson the feet of some old manwith white tube socksor black dress sockspulled up,right up,to his knees. Someone once said:I don't know why Birkenstocksare suchhippie shoes.Birkenstockis just [...]
Posts under ‘smiles’
Laughter
"You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."~Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie My daughter has the most magical laugh. It does make me think that her glee could be giving birth [...]
Mark’s Favorite Joke in the Whole World
One of the reasons I love my husband so much, and that I feel we've been able to weather so much together, is that we both love to laugh. We laugh together so hard we can't breathe. When we're out at the movies, people think we're high (which, believe it or not, neither of us [...]
Holy Crap! Dieting is Bigger than Porn!
I mentioned in my 8 Things About Me meme post that I have lost 25 pounds on the Shangri-La diet in the last 4 months. (I don't generally diet, because I don't think it's healthy or effective long term, but Shangri-La has rocked my world.) When I checked my SiteMeter stats this evening, I had [...]
My Favorite Joke in the Whole World
Mark told me this joke for the first time over fifteen years ago, and I still think it is the absolute funniest joke I've ever heard. I think it's one of the reasons I married him.It's hard to tell it in writing, because a lot of it depends on the delivery and hinges on the [...]
Beautiful Summer Day
After, five hours of cleaning on Wednesday, I decided yesterday that it was time to leave the dishes and the laundry, and head out of the house. So, we set off for the library to gaze at their fish tank full of "Nemo fish" and "Dory fish" and get some new books. When my daughter [...]
Summer Vacation
I've spent the past five hours today cleaning the house while my kids ran around in various states of undress, watched TV, and played together (punctuated, of course, by the two of them hitting one another whenever they got bored or frustrated). Among the things I had to clean up, in addition to the usual [...]
There’s Enough of Me to Go Around
Oh, my! See what happens when you get a blog full of the addicts, the codependents, the odd and the isolated? Everyone ends up tangled in huge, hilarious mock fisticuffs in the comments over my blogging love and affection. You all have me smiling and laughing every time I check my comments these days. To [...]
Doppelganger
There is a particular celebrity who looks uncannily like my husband. I won't tell you which celebrity, lest you are walking down the street one day and, spying a handsome black man, think, "Whoa! Is that...? No. Oh, then it must be that sex addict with the blogger wife!" I will tell you, however, that [...]
What the "P" Stands For
When I started blogging, I blogged under a set of pseudonymous initials: MPJ. After a while, I got tired of not having a real pseudonym; in part, I realized it was difficult to tell if MPJ was a man or a woman, and I wanted to make it clear that this is very much a [...]
