Home alone, partying like it’s 1999
My husband takes our girl on a daddy-daughter trip every spring break. I don’t go. I’ve had work and can’t
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A mis-timed house cleaning
I’ve written about my messy house before. It’s not that I am a hoarder. It’s that I’m a busy working
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The education of Husband in things female
My husband has been my husband for 18 years and still refuses to understand more about the world of feminine
Read moreLiving with Mr. Fix It
My husband has, apparently, a new hobby of fixing things around the house. It has been a few years. It
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Bedtime stories for newsroom baby
This is the kind of bedtime reading we occasionally do: I bring out the KITV4 Island News scripts and the
Read moreAn ode to my heating pad
It’s 54 degrees tonight in my part of Hawaii, and I’m enjoying this chill. Considering how other states and locales
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Deskmates share snail mail system
In this era of tech everything, my daughter – a digital native! – encouraged me to return to communication by
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Questionably legal Christmas gifts
We had a strange theme for this year’s Christmas gifts. One gift looked like a bag of cocaine with a
Read moreHusbands who don’t listen
My husband and I have become that marital stereotype where the man doesn’t listen to the woman. I’ve joked about
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Nonsensical semantics in the house
A lot of the funny in-jokes and pet phrases in our little family are things we’ve been saying so long,
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