Thrifty Tuesday and a Room of My Own
So I’ve never read anything by Virginia Woolf. One of many gaps in my English major education. But she wrote the essay A Room of One’s Own, which is about […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Eat, Write, Love
What I’ve been up to: Staring at all my green tomatoes and willing them to ripen. Submitting an essay to Real Simple magazine’s annual Life Lessons essay contest. This year’s theme was: […]
Pale September…
… I wore the time like a dress that year. — Fiona Apple So Mr. McGuire and I are trying to live within a drastically slashed budget for September. Just […]
How a Tomato Is Not Like a Child
School started! School started! I’ve never enjoyed the start of school so much. Traditionally I’ve found this time of year depressing, even in those years when I was out of […]
Putting the Labor in Labor Day
The stay-at-home-mom job involves a lot of waiting and killing time. Sitting with a sick kid who can’t quite stay asleep, like I am right now. Waiting in doctor’s offices. […]
McGuire Domestic Enterprises 