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Somehow I’ve gotten into the habit of telling my kids a bedtime story about my past, most specifically my childhood. I think Katie is the one who got me on that path, but now they expect it each night. And they want it to be a funny story. No pressure there. In case you’re wondering, I [...]

It’s funny how some things are just ingrained in your head from such a young age that it’s nearly impossible to re-assign the mental image. According to my mother, I was potty trained by the age of two because parents didn’t mess around in the late 60’s and early 70’s. I’m not sure how far [...]

Friday is The Book of Questions Day around these parts. Today’s question comes from the aptly titled book “The Book of Questions” by Gregory Stock, Ph.D. And here it is, Question 71. Would you be willing to have horrible nightmares every night for a year if you would be rewarded with extraordinary wealth? What would you do [...]

Our eight-year-old wants a pet. She is fixated on getting a dog as she is allergic to cats and has asthma. Before we had children, we had two cats — our faux children as Mr. C calls them. We got rid of one in 2003 when our second daughter was born. Katie remembers that cat, [...]

I just finished reading John Grisham’s most recent book, “The Appeal” which prompted the question: What criteria is necessary for an average person to initiate a lawsuit?What criteria is necessary for an average person to initiate a lawsuit? When is an accident just an accident? The main story is about a large chemical company dumping [...]

Today I have to update you on yesterday’s post. I heard back from the Redhead Who is Not a Hooker via email! Yes, I did mentally jump up and down as if Seal and Heidi Klum left me a personal message. Here’s her response. Hi, I’m glad you enjoyed my post! It actually got flagged for removal this [...]

As you know, Craigslist missed encounters are just too interesting to resist. There are some funny people out there casting the net. And when I’m scrambling for blog fodder, they always deliver. I don’t live in California but San Francisco seems to provide a lot of entertaining characters. For example, there’s the woman who was [...]

Friday is The Book of Questions Day around these parts. Today’s question comes from the aptly titled book “The Book of Questions” by Gregory Stock, Ph.D. And here it is, Question 84. Would you have one of your fingers surgically removed if it somehow guaranteed immunity from all major diseases? No. Part of me wants to just post this [...]

The other day I was watching a THS Investigates episode about Dennis Rader the BTK serial killer. The show mentioned that Rader worked in the Compliance Department at Park City, Kansas. In this position “he enforced housing problems, zoning, general permit enforcement and a variety of nuisance cases.” The show mentioned that he was extremely [...]

I believe I have seen the Ghost of Cardiogirl Future (GoCF) but we’ll get to that later. I just used the elliptical machine next to the Ghost of Cardiogirl Past (GoCP) yesterday. And that GoCP was one tough monkey. When I started pedaling I didn’t realize GoCP was to my left. She seemed innocuous enough, [...]