Up Popped A Fox

I had several posts in mind this week and then…never wrote them. We are once again sleep-deprived here at the Casa de Up Popped A Fox. Heat…humidity…and now – Zeca has bronchitis. I know that she is contracting all these illnesses because, after winter was over, I said, “The kids were quite healthy this winter!”  [...]

When I was 15, I took Driver’s Ed from a curmudgeonly teacher who looked like Tom T. Hall. He wore polyester pants (mostly in grays and blues), short sleeve dress shirts and a persistent look of disdain. He never said much. He simply corrected our driving mistakes through a series of grunts and sighs. I [...]

Last week, I had a complete breakdown at work. I snapped. I walked into my supervisor’s office and immediately burst into tears. I then proceeded to sob, gasp for air and make dramatic declarations like, “This job is sucking the life out of me!” “I can’t take it anymore!” “We cannot continue to work at [...]

Last weekend, I flew to New Hampshire for the second annual meeting of Pinky Tuscadero’s Assassins. There were reps from Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota and Massachusetts. We even had reps from the Netherlands and Nicaragua. Our power is that far-reaching. So, what do the members of the PTA do when they convene? We eat, drink and [...]