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No kids allowed weekend!

My weekend. Had some of this A little of this And a whole lot of this Saturday night Peter and I were given a wonderful opportunity to be a part of an extraordinary event and share the evening with friends who have become family. Sister Hazel frontman Ken Block lost his younger brother to Lymphoma [...]

Ok, where’s my tissue when I need it?

I have awesome friends. They have awesome kids. They love my kids. They touch my heart.  I have AWESOME friends. Mandy Willis is 7 years old. She has Neurofibromytosis and is battling Optic Glioma and other non-malignant brain tumors.  She and Rachael have bonded since we met in the spring, becoming the closest of friends. [...]

USF Ice Bulls Childhood Cancer Event!

If you like hockey, raise your hand! If you like USF, raise your hand! If you think raising money to give to the families of kids with cancer is a good thing, raise your hands! If anyone dropped their hands on that last one, be prepared, I’m coming for YOU! If you’re local to the [...]

My trademark brand of crazy

When something’s weighing heavy on your heart, do you have a sure-fire way of overcoming the funk that wants to drown you?  Avoid thinking about it?  Get so busy you don’t have time to obsess about it? Or do you just indulge in the funk, wallowing in it until you are neck-deep in the sheer [...]

Lots of Lazy Link Love

Easy like Sunday morning! So easy, I’m doing it Saturday night. In the aftermath of a birthday party, a casino-hitting girl’s night out, and a diatribe against Locks of Love that has gotten some pretty serious response, I am taking today to be L-A-Z-Y! I’m just going to hang with my kids, clean up around [...]