Author: leilani

If you’re like me, you probably wonder how often those crazy customer-service email exchanges are really as crazy as they sound.  I assure you that in at least some cases, they are.  I’m dealing with one of them now. This is the ongoing and still-unresolved issue in which, for the second time in two years,…

Twitter is this ridiculous, pointless, and subversive creation that, much like sugar and crack cocaine, can become addictive.  The same could probably be said of blogging, or Failbook Facebook, and the soon-to-be-dearly-departed MySpace, but who’s counting? Twitter is still near the upper arc of the trend-line, and while I don’t pretend to claim it’s my…

It was one of those strange moments in Arizona history, when the impossible happened: it rained. Finally. Unfortunately our reprieve from the miserable heat didn’t even last a day.  It rained last night.  Today it was back to our usual summer bake-a-thon.  I was off work for the day so I could get some routine…

The Internet is the Great equalizer, and not always in a good way.  Cursive?  Nobody needs no steenking cursive any more!  It’s actually being removed from the curriculum in some parts of the US.  We’re talking about kids who literally won’t learn to sign their names.  I can’t tell you how flabbergasted that leaves me….

I tend to talk here mostly about my daughters (and all too often in the bitchy capacity, truth be told.)  I mention one or t’nother of my boys now and again, mostly because (at least compared to my girls) the sons are stable. Geeky as I am, but stable. It’s kind of awesome, therefore, to…