by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Did you ever get a note from your child’s school and secretly hope it was about anything but a project?  Minor behavior infraction. Please let it be a minor behavioral infraction.  Oh, that four-word note that casts dread deep into the heart of a parent: SCIENCE NOTEBOOK…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea “You’re going to cover that, right?” Standard microwave-operating question. It’s actually more command than question. And I don’t think the answer should ever be “no.” Especially if it’s a lasagna reheat. Heating uncovered lasagna in the microwave leaves a tiny-little murder scene. Still, through the years—more than…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Every time I’m reading something and find someone has misused words, I literally have a cow. (Literally? See what I did there?)   Of course, I know it’s hypocritical of me to have any kind of “beef” over someone else’s word blunders (and yes, I’ll try ease…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I don’t know why we’re always making things a lot more complicated than we need to, but repairs shouldn’t be rocket science. Unless you’re repairing rockets. For everything else it’s a lot simpler than we tend to make it. According to my grandfather, if it’s mechanical, you…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea If it hadn’t required law school and…you know…brains and whatnot, I would be a lawyer right now. Except I wanted to do it exclusively so I could someday say to a colleague, “See ya later, litigator!” It’s all about the line! It’s probably just as well that…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea A lizard. In the house. On the bed. I was housesitting for some friends when I was younger. I must not be all that good at housesitting, because there he was. A creepy-looking, scaly invader. How could I let it happen? I confess, my initial response was…