by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I’ve probably mentioned before that I don’t usually cook for the people I love. Because I love them. And while there’s much that could be said here about being hospitable, there are also a couple of sentences I could add about being “hospital-able”—which, I’m telling you, could…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I’m a people person. To the extreme. So extreme that I’m often that seriously annoying kind of people-people-people-y person. That one. That’s me. Every time someone tells me that it takes a village, it doesn’t even matter much what we want the village to do, I come…

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…