From the category archives:

Life with the Circus

Happy 8th Birthday Hazel

by tarastar on July 24, 2010

I began trying to get pregnant shortly after getting married in 1999.  I assumed it would be easy; it was not. After two years of failed fertility treatments, my then husband and I decided on one last IVF cycle.  This time we would go to St. Barnabas in New Jersey, home to a well known [...]

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Ken Gets a Penis

by tarastar on July 14, 2010

I’ve neglected Cinderella (Episode 1 is here, Episode 2 is here) and her saga because I have a very short attention span.  Also because I can’t think of what happens to Cinderella next.  I’ve got some pictures of her naked on a Costa Rican beach but don’t know what to do with them.  My plan [...]

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We went to Yosemite for July 4th, something we’d done last year and vowed never to do again. But delusion and denial are my BFFs so we packed up the car and went for a do over. All the conditions were right for someone to get stabbed…Clyde was sick, Hazel was in a [...]

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Well it’s Wednesday on a week I don’t have the kids; consistently the worst day of the week for me.  On the weekend I am fine.  Monday I am full of hope about all the things I will get done while the kids are with their dad.  Tuesdays I do all the laundry and cook [...]

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Remember how I said I was taking a three month break from shopping, especially Target? And I named this experiment The Coven because as someone pointed out witches are the new zombies.  And most of you said, ha ha ha, good luck moron! Quit Target? That’s like trying to quit water!  And I said, [...]

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