Well the All Star game has come and gone and even though I don’t watch it, it’s always meant summer is halfway over. The days are just a bit shorter, have you noticed? I feel a compulsion to stop slacking and start having more summer fun, dammit! (I’m feeling a bit more liberated to swear […]

Good Morning! If you have just returned from vacation I hope reading this will help ease the transition back into reality. If you have yet to go this can help you keep track of the days/weeks until you take off and if you have no real vacation plans to speak of…well then read on about […]

Hope you had a fabulous weekend celebrating the birth of this crazy little democracy of ours! Three day weekends are just so darn great. I wonder if Monday really enjoys letting loose once in a while and letting Tuesday take the brunt of the world’s angst for a change? Sorry Tuesday! Hey THIH, what did […]

Another brutally hot weekend but I think we’re adapting, remembering that life at these temperatures is best faced with cold treats and as little clothing you can get away with in polite company. As I struggled to keep my plants and children well hydrated I dusted off an old acting technique, sense memory, trying to […]

Scorching. Blistering. Fry an egg on the sidewalk…are you sick of the heat talk yet? I am. Oh it was a super-hot one and no, actually, it wasn’t the humidity it was just bloody H.O.T. How did the THIHers manage the heat?