Just for the Fun of It

I opened up my inbox one morning to find a email from "carol" with a subject line of "the another Carol Ross."  I had a feeling it was one of the Carol Ross’s I have found by googling myself last fall and blogged about in a posting.  Sure enough, it was. This Carol Ross was…

Okay, I’m getting desperate.  Last week I blogged about my rabbit problem. Here’s what’s happened since then.  I brought, Bodey, the neighbor’s dog, over to my yard. Or rather the neighbor’s son, who plays with my son brought him over. As I suspected, foreign territory does not make for a good aggressor. Bodey stood by…

I was talking with a woman today who told me she loved the name of my podcast, Live Action Coaching. I asked her what she liked about the name, thinking it had something to do with the sound of forward movement. Instead it was the sound of wrestling. She replied, "Oh, it reminds me of…

I am being tormented by a rabbit.  A small gray bunny with a white cottontail. The weather has been beautiful–75 degrees, slight wind, blue skies–and my patio is inviting as a second office. Out of the corner of my eye, I see the rabbit come out of the leafy mass of dogwood bushes, near the…

I carpool with another family for school pickup and dropoff.  I usually have the morning shift. I pick up three boys, ages 11, 13, and 14, friends of my sons’. The oldest kid sits in the passenger seat next to me, away from his younger siblings in the back seat but not totally out of…