No need to send snow. I’m willing to send you the warmth you need not to have anymore, though. If only weather worked like that.

I’ll send you a few extra degrees as soon as I figure out how. I’m in Arizona, which typically has gorgeous spring weather. Unfortunately, we’ve been 10-15 degrees above average for the last week, and likely will be for the coming week as well. Wednesday’s high is predicted to be 100, about a month ahead of schedule.

The tie breaker game would be Tuesday. I know the chances it happens are slim, but I want it to happen.

My dad and uncle ran into this, too. Full siblings have a 1 in 4 chance of having the same genetic marker at each location. The ancestry estimate is made of of combinations of genes typically seen in certain geographic regions. Even though you and your sibling share c. 3 of 10 genes, when combined with the other 7,…

My dad is a retired high school special ed teacher in Arizona. His compensation was higher than average in Arizona, but we rank 49th in high school teacher pay when adjusted for cost of living. He’s ready to join the picket line when teachers walk out.

Thank you to you and all the other teachers. Our future depends on you, yet you get little pay and little respect for so much work. Teachers should not be paid a little as they are and should not be having to spends hundreds, if not thousands, out of their own pockets to provide supplies to their classrooms.

We started scheduling after a long dry spell about a year and a half ago. Busy and conflicting schedules were getting in the way. My husband (also 40, so we have the same general details) gets up at 3am for work 4 mornings a week, so is ready to go to sleep pretty much right after dinner those days. We scheduled for…

39, together 17 years, 3-4 times a week. Two are scheduled and non negotiable. Sometimes those start out feeling like duty sex, but not always. If it does, the feeling usually passes.

Vanilla and lemon checkerboard with cream cheese frosting.

This is my cake for our neighborhood Easter/ Spring lunch tomorrow.

Oh, yes. Orange County born and raised, I left at the first opportunity and will never live there again.

My 12 year old son saw a new report about these within a week of the Parkland shooting and asked for one. I asked him why, and he responded “The government loves guns and gun money more than they love people and I don’t want to die.” A student at his school brought a loaded gun to school at the beginning of the year…

Miss Mimi making herself cozy.

Happy Birthday!

Thank you. I’m the second of two girls. My father has commented more than once that I was supposed to have been his boy. He has also stated that I was the last child because he wanted a third daughter less than he wanted a son.

We thought my maternal grandfather’s last name would end with him, but my aunt and her daughter have both kept the name and passed it on.

My 12 year old son got Invisalign last month through an orthodontist. I would not have agreed to it through a do it yourself, but that’s just me. Do you have dental insurance? Many plans cover orthodontia. In our situation, they paid half, so the cost was comparable to do it yourself. He has top and bottom, but I…

My 12 year old is right handed, but holds his pencil the way I remember lefties holding theirs when I was in school. This is my best approximation of his grip.

My 12 year old son has also had the vaccine. I was chastised by another parent for giving him “permission” to have sex.

They don’t. Her husband works as much overtime and privately paid events as possible as a supplement. As bad as his 1-2% raise is every year, it’s better than the 0% teachers had been getting. She was upset that teachers wanted 5%. After five years, who can blame them?