This is the place where I admit I don’t give two figs about Michael Jackson.

Really.  I mean, I have some sympathy in my heart for his family, and I feel badly for those in his employ, but that’s about it. 
I was a child of the 80’s.  I remember MJ back then.  I was not a fan, short of a brief admiration of the Thriller video.  And I am still [...]

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It seemed like a good idea at the time.

If you’ve been reading here any length of time, you know that the Mox family enjoys the beach.  We like the beach for many reasons.  If you’re us and you’re at the beach, it’s warm.  We like warm.  We also like sunny and breezy.  We like the opportunities we get to see some nature.  We [...]

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Sound advice.

 
 
– Mox

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Gang aft agley.

I am undecided at this point if I am failing my diet or my diet is failing me. 
I start out at the cusp of each morning with good intentions, that one thing is for sure.  By about 10:30 all is for naught. 
You see, I am low-carbing.  Or rather, my brain is low-carbing.  My mouth is [...]

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Nature takes its’ course.

Spawn survived Acting Camp, aka Basic Actor’s Training (BAT), and even participated in a performance at the end of the week.  The campers performed a variety of Shel Silverstein poems, and Spawn got up and read one in front of the assembled moms and dads.  Of course the kid held the paper at face level [...]

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To be or not to be. Is that the question?

Spawn has been in daycamp this week at the local children’s museum, and this week has not been quite what the kid was expecting. 
When we signed up for the various daycamps a couple of months ago, I went through the various brochures and camp descriptions, line by line, and Spawn decided which ones were interesting [...]

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Obfuscation.

I chuckle at this because in a lot of ways, this is the kind of student I was.  My high school teachers didn’t know what to do with me so they gave me A’s and my college professors sort of saw through my charade and challenged me . 

I like to think I came out ahead, [...]

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Moonlight becomes me.

I am no stranger to working multiple jobs at once.  I’ve done it practically as long as I’ve been working, moonlighting from time to time in retail or by working two dissimilar part-time gigs in order to patch together an approximation of full-time pay.  I’ve freelanced a bit, too, offering my disparate knowledge in a [...]

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Above average.

Spending time with my extended family never fails to make me feel tall.  And thin. 
Practically speaking, I am above average height for a white American female.  Average height is 5′4″ and I’m 5′7″, which I am told is tall for a woman.  But I work with a bunch of men and most of them are [...]

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It’s okay to drink like a fish if you drink what the fish drinks.

Oy.  What a week. 
My mother and I came to an uneasy truce.  Or rather, I decided to not bring it up again and went forward as if nothing happened. 
The rest of the week was a blur of daycamp.  Spawn is signed up for six weeks’ worth of daycamps, which take place in the city I [...]

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