Hell’s Half Acre

Everyone is still awake; we get up in 4.5 hours to catch our flight.  I got lots of reading material and writing materials and games to play for the flight (as opposed to the last flight that I didn’t even have food for) but something tells me that they’ll be sleeping the whole time.  I [...]

I’d like whomever informed the dieties or fates or aliens guiding our universe that our family is actually a family of sharks, and not humans, to please STOP the insanity already.  We have not stopped moving since the last kid stopped vomiting.  We still have sick ones, but we can’t stop for them; we have [...]

except for the price. Today we had the joy of experiencing the US health care system. If you’ve been following the pictures in Flickr, you will have seen that the boys are exploring skateboarding. Some of you may have seen the future from the first picture but I was not among you. [...]

Oh. My. Freaking. Gawd. If one isn’t barfing, they’re barking (cough). If they’re not barfing or barking, they’re being schlepped to parkday or Andrew’s house or (cue angels harps) Target. Some one, if not more than one, has been sick each and every day since the 3rd day we [...]

The flooding in Tabasco has been a ghost hovering about my days but my mind has turned ADD since we landed; hopping from one idea to the next, distracted by billboards and books. I almost always drive in Mexico and Jamie has been doing a lot of driving here in the US. [...]