by Lorna Harris on April 27, 2010
Life seems to be getting the better of me at the moment. I’m running from one thing to another with hardly any time to pause and catch my breath in between. The main cause of this is baseball, which will end in a few weeks, thankfully. Much as I love watching the boys play in [...]
by Lorna Harris on April 21, 2010
We have a volcanic ash refugee trapped at our house. What should have been a speedy 24 hour visit from our British friend, fitted in at the end of a conference in Las Vegas, has turned into a week long stay in Southern California. A first time visitor to Los Angeles, our refugee is struggling [...]
by Lorna Harris on April 16, 2010
God, how I loathe organised parents. Somewhere in Newport Beach there is a smug mother or father sitting with a giant stack of library books all about Texas. I didn’t spend the Spring Break preparing my child for the next big event in Fifth Grade – the State Project. I took my children on an [...]
by Lorna Harris on April 1, 2010
We have a long haul flight tomorrow. I can’t wait. Ten, maybe eleven, hours of sitting still. Some wonderful flight attendant will bring me food, gin and tonics, there will be endless screen entertainment. I have the crappiest magazines on the planet to read. That’s my long haul treat. People Magazine, US Weekly, In Touch, [...]