Confessions of a Clay Pot

It offered free uniforms, on-the-job training, and a complimentary pop whenever I wandered in – beat that! They said in my first training se...

The deck needed to be freshened up. We had a day and a half without rain in the forecast, but we were pretty sure we could get it done in on...

I’ve been noticing a new crop of ponytailed cuties all over the place this spring. I am a huge fan of ponytails on little girls and I have t...

My husband and I have started feeling our age in the last couple of years. When we got a church softball league going last summer, and found...

I’m a TV snob. While we do normally watch a vast array of programs, even that scandalous reality television is on our usual diet of boob-tu...

Since starting my maternity leave, we’ve managed to get the girls to church all of four times; all Wednesdays, never on a Sunday. And that’s...

I knew going into it that caring for a newborn again was going to test the very limits of my endurance. Anyone who says they get “baby fever...

Nothing inspires my evolutionary inferiority complex more than cockroaches. They’ve got survival perfected. They can live anywhere, and surv...

The lie was (b).  I actually have never gotten a speeding ticket, let alone two on one trip.  However, I cannot say that I never deserved on...

So, in honor of April Fool’s Day, I thought about confessing something horrible and then saying April Fool’s at the end. But then I thought ...

Heading into the week of Spring Break, it looked like our family was about to turn a huge corner. In very similar fashion to how things prog...

We saw a classic rerun of Raymond last night. It was the Christmas episode, where Ray uncovers Deborah’s martyr-complex by offering to watc...

It is a long-storied fact that pregnancy opens your life up to the scrutiny of strangers and loved ones, alike. The clerk at Walmart that fo...

We got our first delivery of Girl Scout Cookies. One box each of Caramel deLites and Peanut Butter Patties. With great restraint, the girls ...

…but maybe it’s not such a bad thing that people assume I’m so naïve. There was certainly a time when they were absolutely correct. I rememb...

Hopefully it is just a hormone thing, but I felt the tell-tale itchiness around my eyes this morning at Walmart. It took me by surprise and ...

We learn about relationships through friendships.  I was a very isolated and lonely kid, so when I first came out of my shell and started m...

We usually have friends over for the Super Bowl, and I usually, at some point, find myself torn between football and entertaining. Since our...

Some people think I’m a cheapskate or a freeloader. They may be right. And this post may severely inhibit my social engagements in the futur...

Between Women’s Studies courses and life experience, I knew by my mid-twenties that things needed to change in our world. While men can be w...