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From the Cheap Seats
http://laskigal.blogspot.com/
I'm a new mom and a teacher (on leave for the year). I'm a reader, a writer, and observer. From the cheap seats, I write about life as a new mom, a wife, a teacher, and an everyday citizen with a sense of humor and a healthy dose of reality.
Recent Posts
Reason #354 on why Facebook Sucks
Click. Scroll. Click.Nice. Swell. Awesome.Today I have even more proof as to why I am the world's worst mother.Flippin' Facebook. Oh, how I hate thee."Just took the kids to the apple orchard! The kids absolutely loved it! We're making homemade apples...
Survival Mode: Act III
I grab fistfuls of damp grass, mud crusts underneath my fingernails.Not wanted. Discarded. Dead.I want to scream, to sob, but I'm suffocating. I stand among the ancient headstones trying to figure out how to breathe.***"I just think we need to take a...
Vanilla
Narcissist. How dare you think of yourself so much. Stop reflecting. These thoughts, they are cumbersome. I've always thought of myself as vanilla bean (all natural, of course) with caramel swirl and chunks of oddly shaped fudge. Some days I would e...
Baby Interruptus
I swear. There's a post. But there is also a baby who cries. She wants her mama.I could hit publish, but it is unfinished and riddled with errors.I owe you two....
Why not?
I'm going for it. I'm going to attempt to write a blog post every single day in the month of November.You know, I had a brilliant blog post written.Then I realized it was nearly 3 AM (I started it before midnight, swear) and it just wasn't so brilli...
Survival Mode: Act II
I dip my head in just enough--a modern Ophelia with no agenda. The world around me turns into echoes of twisted apologies. I close my eyes and focus on the stillness, the quiet that wraps around my body. The weight of the water provides asylum from ...
