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If That Diamond Ring Don't Shine
samanthagia posted 6 weeks 2 days ago — Tomorrow night I won't be home making dinner, helping with homework, preparing for the next day like usual because I am actually doing something I never do - going out to eat with a friend. I never do this because somewhere in suburbia, sometime d...
Malibu Chicken Casserole
samanthagia posted 6 weeks 5 days ago — When I was a kid, my mother had three slam dunks, food wise: homemade barbeque sauce, tamalie pie from the original Sunset Magazine cookbook, and Malibu Chicken. I don't know where Mailbu chicken got it's name, but it was a dish of boneless c...
White Bean & Tomato Salad-Too Hot to Cook!
samanthagia posted 7 weeks 1 day ago — I am guilty of forgetting how...unpleasant...I become when the weather gets hot. Everyone else is aware of it, though. This week began with a field trip to an inland "camp" in an arid, brushy valley east of the city, and the temperature was a...
The Me List
samanthagia posted 7 weeks 4 days ago — I think people love to talk about themselves. I know parents love to discuss their kids. If you ever have two hours to spare, ask a woman about labor and delivery of her child or children. (My bragging right: second child, breech position, back lab...
Zombie and Johnny
samanthagia posted 7 weeks 6 days ago — For two weeks now, my husband and two daughters have taken turns being sick. Luckily, I got sick and better before them, two days after my youngest started preschool (big mystery there). So I've gone from sick mom, to nurse mom, to my cur...
Staying Home and Looking Forward
samanthagia posted 8 weeks 13 hours ago — The first round of sickness this school year has stuck around far too long! I have resigned myself to the fact that I will get nothing - not a damn thing - done today. I will be taking care of Zoe, whose fever spiked at 103.6 at 1:44 a.
Loving in the Dark
samanthagia posted 8 weeks 2 days ago — Today didn't start out melancholy, it just got that way. I remember a couple of weeks ago I said I was dropping dread. But here's the thing: my heart is still beating, therefore, vulnerable. Like when I hear of a school shooting in Finland,...
Food to Celebrate Autumn's First Day
samanthagia posted 8 weeks 3 days ago — Since the first week of school, when 1st grader Zoe and her class made applesauce and did apple crafts, she has been tugging at me in the kitchen, or poking me in the arm at the store..."Apples, Momma, APPLES! I wanna. Make. Apple. Sauce!" Ye...
