Trivia time: Remember Thomas Edison? Well, he was totally not born in New Hampshire. He was born in Milan, Ohio. BUT, he did go on campin...

One of my and Michael’s friends, Andrew, also happens to have Cerebral Palsy. Both Michael and Andrew speak differently because ...

Sometimes when a car is stuck behind me on a one lane road and I'm not comfortable going faster, I imagine that I'm an exotic i...

Are you overwhelmed with mess? Wondering what the purpose of life is? Generally irritated at the world around you? Camping will effecti...

The season is changing and the sky is softer and the leaves are crunching and the wind is stirring and all things are alive and dying with a...

One day, dear New York, I will visit you. But for now I'll just be catching up on sleep.

Sometimes, it’s easy to think that if we are a woman, disabled, an ethnic minority, a religious minority, LGBTQ or otherwise part of a gr...

I LOVE thrift store play dates. Even when a really nice and well-meaning lady comes up to me while I sit with my baby in the toy aisle...

So, I *tried* packing my eight books and the twenty notebooks for my students into a backpack (not my normal one, but a hiking backpack)....

So, I like to tell myself that the expressions I make on the states have nothing to do with how I feel about them, and that's probably...

I’ve come to the conclusion that, if you struggle with cleanliness like I do, you might benefit from putting shoe baskets in all of your ro...

How to Overcome Differences and Work Around Communication Barriers Are you struggling to overcome differences with your housemates? Do ...

Most people actually like carbonation. Unfortunately, I don’t. (I wish I did; occasionally, I have spent hours swirling pop cans just to ge...

Dear Robot, Thank you for visiting The Earful Blog approximately 5,712 times in the past six days. I appreciate your dedicated attendan...

A few weeks ago I found a page that looked roughly like this in one of my old journals. Dearest Glasses, Fortunately you were bea...

Behold the Ohio-est face I could come up with. I remember staying at a home in Ohio where the towels were only red and black and the w...

Sometimes, I lie in my bed and look up, so I can see how clean five of the sides of my room are. I recommend doing this as often as po...

One night when I was pregnant with our baby, Michael came home rejuvenated from playing racquetball, excited to see me, and eager ...

Sorry Texas. You're a hard state to work with. But really, everyone I know from Texas is pretty wonderful. Granted, that's ...

If I slow down to fifty, cars zoom past. If I speed up I will get a double fine or maul some poor construction worker. If...

I’m very glad that I don’t know how often I look as though I am being a terrible parent even when I’m not, because I think the social anxie...

Imagine walking into a room where a women is in labor. She is screaming and sobbing and shaking. You raise your eyebrows a...

Utah is possibly most infamous for its alternating hot flashes and cold sweats. Possibly it is experiencing menopause. In any case, the po...

Besides the fact that Michael practices law, is the chief stroller manager in our household, plays songs from The Secret Garden as well as d...