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How One Ends Up At Coyote Ugly

First, you meet your best friend Danielle at Maggiano's and have a lovely dinner and a few beers. Then you buy tickets to Superman Returns for the 7:45 show. Since you have time to kill, you check out the street fair at the Pavilions, but…

Mentoring is cool!

We are a finalist for a project with the health department that addresses low birth-weight babies among Latinas in Colorado. This is a subject area that we have never ventured into, mainly because we didn't have anyone with the right background. But one of our…

Politically Incorrectness

I know it's way funnier to us than it should be, but Declan looks soooo Hitler-ey when I comb his hair after a bath. We've taken to calling him "HY" when he runs out in his pajamas (pssst: HY = Hitler Youth, but don't tell…

Independence Day

Despite my rants to the contrary, I love my country. And she is not an easy country to love. She has warts. Big, ugly warts. And anyone who doesn't think so is deluding themselves. But at the same time, there are many things about this…

I forgot!

In my Maryland ramblings, I forgot to mention that on our flight back from Baltimore, we saw Gary Gait in line to check in, waiting for the plane and then he ended up sitting just 2 rows behind us!Who is Gary Gait you may ask?He's…

Playdate Sunday

Declan's girlfriend, err, I mean, friend that is a girl (much like all of his friends) Trudy (and her parents and baby sister) came over for a playdate this morning. The kids were a riot blasting through with every single one of Declan's toys and…