okay    so I was going to write today about several things which have been going through my otherwise frazzled mind this week like        PIPES?!      are they making a comeback?     i’ve seen two men in the past two days walking down the street puffing on those old-fashioned babies and while I am not advocating smoking in any way it did strike me as a pleasantly uncanny sort of novelty kind of like when you attend a cultural festival and you see Clydesdale horses pulling along a cart        and then I was going to write about a certain reality dancing star  who I have a slight crush on    and anyone who follows me on twitter will know who I’m talking about       so     last night in between the half-hour shifts of attending my sick son I thought why not for funsises I’d look up said dancer on Facebook and   Lo! and   Behold!   there he was and then I realised I have more Facebook friends than he does and what the hell is up with that?   All to point to the complex and baffling nature online social networks I still haven’t been able to academise in my head yet     and before you ask I stopped myself as adding him as a friend because    dudes    that is bordering on the weird    and I am not weird

 not usually  anyway

I need sleep

karen andrews

Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity