Who or What is She? She calls herself Lauren but is also known as Mom, Gramma, Lar, and, once upon a time, Peach. An ex-suburbanite who moved to the wilds of the Sonoran Desert and decided to raise fiber animals, fowl creatures, 3 halflings, and one pint-sized farmer without a clue as to how. Join Lauren as she learns how to file alpaca teeth, shear a horny goat, raise 3 teenagers and 1 grandchild while cooking dinner and doing the laundry with her other six arms. All Matters Verbivorous and Grammatical.

Striving for optimism while retaining my skepticism. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Irony, thy name is. And this past summer, I went ahead and bought it. I also started to set up my own self-hosted Wordpress site, with the goal of moving this blog there. Then I decided that I needed to change teaching positions at work.