November 28, 2014 tempestpilot A couple of years ago, I found myself scrabbling around in the bottom of the grocery store freezer on the...

November 25, 2014 tempestpilot My mother and my aunt decided it was time to see the house we are trying to buy. I stood back and watched...

November 18, 2014 tempestpilot Having my Sundays on a Monday pays off for everyone. Mondays are cookie day. This is a holdover from th...

November 13, 2014 tempestpilot My mother’s VW died and was hauled to the shop for a few days of rejuvenation, so I’ve been packing the...

November 12, 2014 tempestpilot Am trying to buy a house. This is a process that is both completely, obsessively all-consuming, and compl...

November 7, 2014 tempestpilot It looks like afterbirth.  It is supposed to look like this: Malgven But it doesn’t yet. I hav...

November 5, 2014 tempestpilot I am going to start a swear jar, and make my mother put a quarter in it every time she says the word “rido...

November 1, 2014 tempestpilot It is that time again. Picture dump. Favorite bit of the evening: youngest cousin ran from door to door,...

O ctober 29, 2014 tempestpilot My mother has been doing bronze casting at the University again, and gave me a ball of wax to attach to h...

O ctober 21, 2014 tempestpilot The hurricane rolled past, dragging with it all the clouds and wind. It is hot. And bright. And birds are...