I’ve imported blog entries from past efforts at this blogging thing. This way I look like I’ve had a life for more than a month. 😉 I have to go through and categorize everything, so please be patient with the “mess”.

From my husband over the weekend: “Who knew I could get such a kick out of microbial action?” In reference to brewing beer and hearing the pleasant gurgle of active yeasties in the budding brew.

An Open Letter To Frankie Avalon Frankie Avalon, you have my thanks for life.  Not because you were a teenage heart-throb.  Not because you permanently affected my views on beauty school. Because you named me. Because of you, my name is not Sunshine.  I do not wish to denegrate other Sunshines in this world; Sunshine […]

Let me start by saying that for years (since I was a young child) I’ve determined that there should be a Children’s Bill of Rights.  I never managed to sit down and write one, and it appears that John Rosemond has beat me to it.  Unfortunately, I found when I read it that I had […]

Apparently whatever caffeine high I was on has left me and, after reading through the same inspiring blogs that made me want to write in the first place, I am already feeling that shrinking “what was I thinking, I have nothing important to say!” feeling. That feeling that you’ve become broken before you’ve even started. […]

Why am I writing another blog?  Or, more correctly, why am I attempting to write another blog?  One reason is that I’ve been inspired by women whose writing fills me with joy, laughter, and longing: Galit Breen and Erin Dionne.  Another is that I have an unnerving desire to write and the fact that I […]