Dear Katie,

For my readers who don't know Katie's story, please refer back here and here. Katie has been home for a few months and returns to school today. She is still working so hard and has come so far and her reward is a touch of normalcy, she gets to go to school half time for …

2013: My Year in Blogging or Try Again Next Year

So, like all of you, I got a little 2013 synopsis from WordPress about my blog activity for the year. I want to thank some of my blogging pals for helping to make 2013 a pretty damn good year for this blog. Firstly, I want to thank my 2500 followers. I know many of you …

7 Things I Learned on My Trip to Denver

1. Southwest Airlines has a system. I don't really know what it is. It involves columns. It involves the letters A, B, C and numbers 1-5, 6-10.... see the pattern? It goes up to 30 and then sometimes up to 60. And they call the A's to stand by the columns and then they call …

The Same Old Teenage Story aka Every Parent’s Nightmare

I remember my mom telling me about three kids in her senior class who were killed in a car accident right around graduation. I think they were hit by a train. When I was a freshman, a senior at my high school (Lake Oswego High School) was killed in a motorcycle accident. Last year, my …

Wedding Album

I'm going to post 25 photos max! That's enough to cover everything and hopefully not so much that you will gag and never read this blog again. As I said yesterday, Jamie Bosworth is my friend and an outstanding photographer. I first met her many moons ago when I was looking for a photographer for …

Whatever “It” Is, Do It!

Last week I read an article that Valerie Harper, Rhoda from my all time favorite show The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has been diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. She could have a seizure and die tomorrow. She could live a few months or a few years, she and her doctor don't know. They do know …

How the Game Should Be Played

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Robert Fulghum The game may be dodge ball. The game may be Mystery Date. The game may be life (not the game of Life but life as we know it, like living everyday). The game may be blogging; in this case, it is …

Helping the Victims of Hurricane Sandy or Why Americans Rock

The devastation and tragedy in the aftermath of Sandy goes on and on. If victims are lucky, they don't have power or are waiting in lines for hours at gas stations. If they aren't so lucky, they have no food, no water, no shelter, no diapers or baby formula, are old and trapped, are using …

A Freshly Slapped OTB

Shown above is the badge I made months ago for today's One Tough Broad. This is going to be a subdued OTB post because Sincerely, Slapdash needs some peace and quiet right now. I don't want you going over there partying it up, leaving plates and napkins all over the place, waking up Little One, …

The Dinner Party Story

Years ago, March 2001 to be exact, Mitch (my ex-husband) and I went to a dinner party. A dinner party that I will never forget. A dinner party that could have been in a movie but  I would have seen it and thought, "no one would really behave like that." Back in 2001, our girls …

One Tough Broad

I like the word "Broad" and its connotations. One Tough Broad, to me, is one of the highest compliments a woman can receive. Joan Rivers, Suzanne Pleshette and one of my all time faves, Elizabeth Taylor... all Broads. I remember when Joan Rivers' husband killed himself and she hit the road working. My mother always …

The VersaLiebLy Awards

I am such a heel. Over the past couple of months a few supportive and generous bloggers have given me awards and I have thanked them and then done nothing about it. Sure, I'm really busy playing golf and Friends with Words, but it would behoove me to pay a little forward. I have received …