Thanks, everyone, for your very sweet support for my decision to suspend DTWOF for a while. Well, that seems to be the preponderance of opinion so far—I haven’t read all the comments closely because I’m working hard to get the last strip done. I’m inking today. In fact, I’m hoping to get the whole thing […]

Saute 2 chopped stalks of Lemongrass, 2 cloves Garlic, about an inch of Ginger and a large onion…
once the onions are translucent add a few tbsp of Curry paste and Miso and a bit Chile sauce…
Add whatever veggie (I have carrot and Cauliflower in this one) and some cut up tofu… saute for a few […]

I got this little booklet from a friend… it comes from the govn’t of Canada and is full of information, and misinformation on MJ….
What I found funny though was the page that explained the signs of pot smoking and what to look look for… or smell for… of course, not everyone knows what Marijuana smells […]

Do I have a chip on my shoulder? What do you think? I live with neurological and arthritic pain 24/7. I’m taking seven different types of medication each day—between 11 and 15 doses—depending on how bad my pain is on any given day. So, do I …

I went to take a lovely soak in my tub this evening and was surprised.

Okay. Let’s get brutally honest. I went to take a quick scalding hot dip in the tub with a shitton of epsom salts mixed in because my girl bits have decided to explode into horror and we all know how nice a salty bath feels to soothe that particular issue (sadly, that’s not sarcasm. it’s really beautiful.) Not so beautiful?

Today, my sister-in-law Gillian gave birth to a son — little Oliver!
Andreas is in Missoula to meet his new nephew, and I’ll be there this weekend to say my own hellos.
For now, I get this photo of uncle and nephew meeting for the first time.

No, I didn’t take these. We had these done by a real professional.They turned out way better than we anticipated. Per usual, these are pictures of pictures, so they don’t really do it justice, but you get the idea…. the phone is our favorite–that …

Some of you might have gotten a message from my rss feed this morning that had a bit of spam… first I was wondering how it got there but then I realized that it was not a post that was supposed to be published publically but that I had published privately last week….
what was really […]

I had pretty much decided to kill my blog, for various reasons, but before I got around to it I suddenly got an increasing number of advertisers wanting link placement on TBH, both directly and through Linkworth, which is the only third-party ad networ…

As expected, the Jane’s World Volume 8 release party was super fun. There were about 300 people in attendance, the largest crowd ever for the Charles Schultz Museum. We mingled, we drank, we listened to Paige read highlights of her new book… and then we sat in the first row for the Girlyman concert. I […]

“My husband’s not doing the unplugged thing; he doesn’t feel he needs to,” she says. “So there are nights that I’m unplugged and he’s checking his e-mail and surfing on his laptop, and I’m like, ‘Grrrrr.’”

So, Friday night I was on ABC’s World News with Charlie Gibson, talking about how 52 Nights Unplugged in the context of a segment about multi-tasking and time management.
TV is a weird beast, and one I’ve learned a lot about in the last year. For the curious, here’s what this particular experience was like.

I really wanted to write this yesterday but with it being my son’s 5th birthday, Mother’s Day and the fact that my husband wouldn’t be home after 4:30 p.m. I really wanted to spend the day just enjoying time with my family.
5 Years ago on Mother’s Day was one of the happiest days of my […]

I have spent about 22 hours at the theatre rehearsing since Friday. Needless to say I am tired and have no time to pee and eat, much less blog. We are getting there, the band sounds great and the costumes look good. We still have some work to do to get…

May all who nourish others feel appreciated today in celebration of the many ways we love.  Of course, to all the other mama bears out there, I hope someone in your life said thank you for how you show up for your kids every day.  And if not, Thank You.
In the spirit of the creation […]

I am trying to stay optimistic, but I am really angry and frustrated over this whole sewer mess. At this point, the city has not responded in any way, not even to investigate things from their end, as far as we know. They are not returning calls.
The basement smells like sewage. Moldy, mildewy sewage. Our […]

Every person desiring to engage in or to continue to engage in any business within the City of Philadelphia shall, whether or not such person maintains a place of business in the City, prior to engaging in such business, procure a business privilege li…

It’s still strange for me to be getting mother’s day wishes. It’s hard to believe some times that I AM a mother. Not that I forget. But I wonder where time has gone. I feel like I was just a 10 year old coloring cards for my mom’s mother’s day. Now I have 2 babies being silly and goofy and giving me kisses and poking the shit out of my tattoo (Liam noticed the letters. and made me say ‘w’ ‘x’ ‘y’

Thanks to everyone who sent their wishes for my rear. I am healing well but still a bit sore. I won’t be riding a bike for a while yet.Gdad asked a question a while back…”How ‘out’ was Dad in his relationships during your teens and early adulthood?”I…

Ahhhhh.

I wake in the morning to an achy arm.

I forgot they can be a little…sensitive after the fact.

This is actually tattoo number 3 for me. I have a pair of butterflies on my shoulder (no, not just generic tee hee hee I’m a girl I want butterflies. They’ve always been my ‘thing’.) Then a catface on my pelvic hip bone zone. That one? Was a bit more “oh I want a tattoo I don’t care what!

In amidst the recent strands about Bob Dylan’s and Joan Baez’s relationship, knitting and drinking, the etymology of “shambolic,” and self-inflicted haircuts, there’s been an insistent thread about fan-fic. As well as actual submissions of it–another one just in, see below.
This was touched off by my whiny video apologizing for not having the next strip […]

$76 dollars and 2 1/2 hours after my appointment started?

I have a tattoo.

On my inner arm.

And it rocks.

It’s really dark right now but it will lighten.

Will show it off tomorrow.

I loved my tattoo artist. He was adorable and hilarious and fantastic and (NEW!) rocked it. He even researched autism awareness before I got there and had some ideas written out for me.

My tattoo looks nothing

Yay! I have internet on my own computer now! Woop!
My life has become similar to that story about the man with all the animals who has to get everyone to the other side of the river, but none of the animals can ride in the boat at the same time. Dale and Bear, the adult […]

I may be behind the times a bit, since the book was released in 2005 but, speaking of behind the times…Oh, good lord…
And it appears that some of his followers are at it again.

This year, the top book with the most complaints made to the American Library Association are for a children’s book titled “And Tango Makes Three” released in 2005 and written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

I got my stimulus payment today, all $886 of it for myself and my little dependent. I am trying to figure out how to pay my credit card bill and preschool tuition before M gets paid next week and before I get reimbursed for some work expenses, but I am…

I think I’m going to try to have a separate blog for my photography. I haven’t posted yet, but link on over if you want.What do you all think about having a separate blog? Will you go there to see my photography? Would you rather it all be on one? Am …

Have you ever noticed the resonance and disonance that can exist between a name and its bearer? Some people seem so well dubbed that another name would be impossible, whereas others wear their appellations like second-hand shirts. I have, on rare occ…

I catch each listener up on my trip to the Northwest. There were exciting locales such as Tillamook, Seattle Eagle, and bad restaurants. For D: quote comes from Saint Genet in my edition on page 134-136 translated by Bernard Fechtman. It is in the v…

Tomorrow night my friend and cartoonist extraordinaire, Paige Braddock, is launching her new book, Jane’s World Vol. 8, up north at the Charles Schultz Museum. That alone would be pretty damn exciting, but it a fit of whimsy she asked Girlyman to come play at her book launch and they agreed. I remembered she called […]

It’s 8am. Know where my kids are? ASLEEP.

Of course they were up half the night being total ass holes so, ya know, whatever.

But for now? They are peacfully asleep on my bed. Though Lily is half off the bed I’m not messing with her.

I am, however, messing with washable markers and my arms.

I drew a heart on my left wrist top and bottom to see how I liked it (after Jen sent me a great idea

I decided to take another step out of hiding. It took nearly a week but it was finally approved. It had been years since I first started using the alias. I was discovering the Internet and began to present myself with the name. Funny thing about the We…

It’s just after 10:30PM and I’m rocking the new Roots record “Rising Down” on my cans and waiting for my laundry to be done. After I fold my whites and pack my bag and take a shower, I’m meeting up with the Doc and his Puerto Rican friends at a club i…

My kids love Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson. My daughter reads his books of comic strips daily. It is a bit of an obsession for her. When a friend asked if we wanted to go to a park today to ride a wagon downhill, I couldn’t resist. Now N is a …

My Thursday Thirteen is stretching it a bit much but hey it is MY Thursday 13.
In no particular order, I give you my Thursday 13.
1. A night with hello…my favorite celebrity male Josh Holloway. God damn, that would be the last gift I would ever need thank you very much. Here is my Eye Candy […]

Thursday Challenge is a place for photographic fun and learning. A theme is announced on the site each week.
It is impossible for me to pick just one picture of them.

People took the substitute cartoonist thing very seriously! Here’s an amazing submission by Iara. She revived Raffi’s old daycare provider, who appeared once, in 1997, and aged her perfectly! Also, I love her in-depth exploration of the oedipal dynamics at work in Sparrow, Stu & JR’s little family unit. Scroll down for Kassie’s “Arachnids To […]

Went to the doctor yesturday. We got to hear Baby Foshe’s heartbeat for the first time. It sounded good! She said it was in the 150’s. Jordan’s was consistantly in the 150-160’s, so I am wondering if we have another girl in there! Unfortunately we won’…

11 years ago today, May 8th… a Thursday night… I was out partying to celebrate finishing my last College exams, when I returned to my Boyfriends apartment and found a note waiting for me on his door…. It was the call that I was dreading… My step-dad died after a long battle with Aids…
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