MARGARET DILLOWAY

  • Valentine’s Day Contest: Care.Com

    At last, the time your husband took you to see Bruce Lee’s grave on Valentine’s Day after eating at a plastic-table cloth family restaurant will finally pay off by winning you a trip to Los Angeles! Um, yeah, that was me. Anyway, check out this contest, where you have to tell about one of your…

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  • Pineapple Express

    Then threatened me dramatically with a plastic spoon.

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  • The Big Sneeze

    I have a cold. The kids had it earlier in the week, and what else can happen when three kids are sneezing or coughing directly in your face for a few days? You catch the cold. However, where theirs was mild and didn’t slow them down, mine has reduced me to a watery-eyed, dizzy mess.…

  • A History of Impractical Cars

    I have a confession to make. I love my mini-van. It’s a 2006 Honda Odyssey, the EX/LX. Almost the highest edition. The highest one had an automatic back hatch opener. It also had like 30 cupholders. Despite my extreme laziness regarding trunk-opening, I could not quite justify shelling out more money for these special features.

  • Mele Kalikimaka!

    This Christmas was smaller than usual. I got by with only two rolls of paper and 1 sheet of free Humane Society gift tag stickers, the kind they send you hoping they’ll guilt you into a donation. Ha ha, suck it, Humane Society! I used your gift tags and didn’t send you a stinking dime!…

  • It’s beginning to look a lot not like Christmas…

    I continue to sweat the month of December away. While Hawaii is enjoying cooler nighttime temps (sometimes it even hits 69!) in the daytime it still is up in the 80s. The upstairs, where the bedrooms (and my home office) is still super hot, probably in the 90s, even with all the fans blowing. Ick.…

  • A Bug’s Life

    It is a well-documented fact that all insect-type creatures want to kill me or taste me. Consider these events from my childhood, when we lived backed up against Cowles Mountain in San Diego, and our house was never bug sprayed: 1. When I was about 6, my brother fell into a wasp’s nest in the…

  • Alien Species

    Ethan said, “Well, we can always find an alien species and smush it up to make jelly.”

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  • Antiquing in Hawaii

    Sometimes Cadillac takes a day off so we can get some “alone time” without paying for a babysitter.  This “alone time day,” I said I didn’t want to go snorkeling again.  I mean, I like snorkeling, but it’s getting cold.  The water’s only 75 degrees, for the love of God!  Hee hee.  (In San Diego…

  • Scouting for Spearfishing

    I peered over the edge. Very nice, except that there were more huge waves crashing into the pool every few minutes and pulling more sealife back out to sea. “If you fall in there,” I said, “I won’t be able to get you.”

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