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• Good

  by gina valley April 13
  Sometimes it’s so easy to focus on the bad.   It’s right there.  It’s in front of us.  It’s easy to see.  It’s hip to talk about.   We stare at it, absorbing every decadent detail.  There’s almost a perverse delight in some to f...

• Top 10 Reasons I DON"T Want To Be President

  by gina valley February 19
  .....I’d rock being President. Totally.  I’ve got just enough OCD and attitude to get things done.  I’ve got boatloads of compassion, but I take no guff.  And, I’ve got teens and toddlers at my house.  Terrorists?  Members of Congress?  Not a pro...

• What Is Going On?

  by gina valley February 18
  There’s stuff I don’t understand.   Things that baffle me.  Things that bewilder me.  Stuff in life I just don’t get.   Lots of it.   I’ve had years of graduate level physics classes.  I guess there’s some stuff that even those don&...
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• Love is....

  by gina valley February 15
  Love is… Love is folding the laundry so I can finish my ice cream   Love is telling me I look beautiful when I don’t because I need to hear it   Love is taking a day off work to make me a bouquet of a dozen roses out of red duct tape   Love is cleaning up the kid...

• Laugh Log- Hubba Hubba Bubba Edition

  by gina valley February 14
  Whether you love it or hate it, you have to admit that Valentine’s Day inspires passion.   Passionate love for it, passionate hate for it, passionate spending, passionate fear of the credit card bill, and, for the lucky (pun might be intended here. I’m not saying) passionate &ldqu...

• Are You Ready For Some Football?

  by gina valley January 31
  Are you ready for some football?   Perhaps you say, “But, Gina, I don’t like football.”   Fair enough.  Just because 1 out of every three Americans and countless more the world over are watching it this week, doesn’t mean you have to watch it, much less lik...

• First We Mourn

  by gina valley December 17, 2012
  Yesterday was a dark day in our nation, in our world.  The stealing of a life is always a horrible loss.  The stealing of many is an unspeakable loss.  The stealing of the young is unfathomable.   We all look on in shock and horror as those in the midst of this unbelievable tra...

• Please? It's My Birthday!

  by gina valley December 4, 2012
    I want you to do something for me.   I know that’s a strange thing for me to say, since usually I make it a point to use this space to make you laugh.   But, I want you to do something for me.  Actually, 12 things, really.  But 1 is fine, too.   My birt...

• Near Death Shopping Experience

  by gina valley December 3, 2012
  So, I’m in line at the discount store.    You know, the one you don’t have to comb your hair to go to?  The one that, judging by several of the women who paraded by, is also bra optional.    As is typical, 4 of the 206 registers were open.    I na...

• I Need An Intervention!

  by gina valley November 29, 2012
  The Food Network is like crack.   I know it’s bad for me, but I keep going right back to it time after time after time.   Now, don’t get me wrong.  I like to cook. I love to cook, actually.  But, watching it makes me yearn to cook like they cook.  Nothing els...

• Time To Torture The Teacher Again

  by gina valley November 13, 2012
  It’s that lovely time of year.   There’s a special magic in the air.   The air is crisp.  The leaves are turning.  The teachers are popping antacids.   That’s right.  It’s the season of parent-teacher conferences…   Teachers...

• Laugh Log - Sepuluh

  by gina valley November 6, 2012
  Ready to get your giggle on?           Join me for a week's worth of laughs all in one convenient package!   READ MORE (and Laugh All About It!!!) at ginavalley.com >>

• That's NOT Mess

  by gina valley November 5, 2012
  My pack loves me.  Really loves me.  I know this the instant I come in our front door, because I am greeted not by a tidy foyer as I have shortsightedly requested, but by an accumulation of debris which is undoubtedly a signifier of their affection for and concern about me, their mom. &...
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• Top 10 Reasons You Can’t Go To Work The Day After Halloween

  by gina valley November 1, 2012
  I understand.  I know how it is.  You were up late wrangling costumed, candy-snorting, sugar-hopped kids, some of whom were adults.  They wouldn’t sleep because they were too tired. It was single digits before you finally crashed, nearly comatose, onto your own bed.   Aft...

• If You See Hoohahs, It Must Be Halloween

  by gina valley October 29, 2012
  You want scary?  You want to walk around inspiring truly blood curdling terror?  Forget Freddie Krueger, Michael Myers, and Jason.  Chuck Chucky.  Oh puhleeze!  Those are nothing.  Go with something REALLY scary:   REALLY Scary Costumes: Teenager With Your Car...

• If You Don’t Clean Your Refrigerator Coils You Will Die

  by gina valley October 25, 2012
  Our fridge is gross most of the time.  The interval between just got cleaned and just turned disgusting is measurable in increments smaller than the differences in Olympic time trial running times.  It’s like I shut the door on a sparkling clean family fridge and open two seconds l...

• Debates, Schemates – Let’s Have A REAL Contest

  by gina valley October 19, 2012
  Not that we don’t all need the extra nap time, but let’s face it, the Presidential debates don’t help any of us truly learn anything new about the Presidential candidates, beyond wondering how they decide who gets to wear the red tie and who gets to wear the blue. Debates, Sch...

• No Compliment Will Go Unpunished

  by gina valley October 17, 2012
  In the never ending saga of life, men and women continue to prove themselves different from one another.   Maybe you’ve noticed.   I have to admit that frequently I think men are differenter than women.  But, there is an area where we girls are definitely the differenter sex...

• He's Not Wearing Any Pants!

  by gina valley October 15, 2012
  I have long been a noter of the sexism in uniforming and costuming among sports and the arts and The Avengers movie.   But, I’m thinking about shutting up about it.   When I see the women ice skaters in their teeny, tiny barely there skating “dresses,” whi...

• Are You Insane...Or Just Trying To Work From Home?

  by gina valley October 14, 2012
  Are you dazed and confused?   Are you unsure whether you are insane or just trying to work from home?   Is there a difference?   As a Work From Home Parent myself (a WFHP, if you will), this subject is always in the forefront of my mind. I often wonder what I am doing.  ...
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