Getting Meta: About My About Me Page

I decided to update my “About Me” page relatively recently. Mainly because I wanted an excuse to post really awesome pictures of the teenage version of myself. Or maybe just because the old one came from such a different voice than I have now. Or maybe because it was just time since I seem to embark on this project every few years no matter what. Either way – I... Read More

Getting Out Of The Blog Dumps

For about 4 months, or so, surrounding my Dad’s sickness and death – I was in the blog dumps. For the first time since this blog was born in January 2004. It was a combination of things, but even as those things faded, I still found myself in the dumps. I just couldn’t get motivated to write. Now, for me? That meant instead of twice a day I was posting once every... Read More

Testing 1,2,3, (Yellow!)

Love. Love. Love LilZ’s new shoes. I’m using this rainy weekend to update the design at my blog. Don’t leave the feed reader, however. It’s not that exciting. When it’s all working I’ll post a screen capture so that if you read from a feed reader you can still see what the design looks like. I don’t like to force anyone away from the... Read More

Another Public Service Entry

Two days ago, out of the blue, I stopped receiving email notifications from WordPress. As in, I was no longer getting emails with each comment. Therefore eliminating my option to reply to commenters in email instead of in comments. This KILLED me. I Googled, I submitted forum threads at WordPress.org, I twittered about it – I did everything short of begging the internet to... Read More

My Web Community Service

I’ve had several people contact me in the last week or two about my blog causing virus alarms all over the place on their computer. I’ve talked to my host and they didn’t really offer any helpful insight (I should switched a long time ago.) and I was starting to get really frustrated. I finally asked the last few people who mentioned it to send me information about... Read More

Hi. I’m Kim.

This is my blog that I've been writing on since January, 2004. I call myself Zoot as it's a derivative of an old childhood nickname. I used to write about my struggles to have children, but eventually I succeeded and now, I write a lot about those kids. I don't use my kid's exact names simply because if someone Googles their very unique names in the future, I don't want them stumbling upon my entries about boobsweat. I mean, would you hire someone whose Mom writes openly about such topics? NO. YOU WOULD NOT.

I love taking pictures and carry my camera (almost) everywhere I go. This means you'll see a lot of photos on this site. I also periodically post recipes I like as I've been slowly (but surely) learning to cook and I like to share my discoveries. Finally? I'm an annoying pop culture fanatic so I'll periodically ramble about Hunger Games or the latest Parks and Recreation.

I hope you like it here. If not? Please don't tell me. I cry easily.
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