REAL BLOGS DON'T JUST share your observations 100% of the time. Instead, they can also be awfully good platforms for sharing the writing of people whose work you admire - people who deserve a larger audience.

I read this blog first thing today (see link below), and I thought some of you would like to see it, too - especially those of us struggling with making ends meet, with being good people, good parents.... With the trials and tribulations of modern life in an economically troubled and troubling world.

It's hard to read at times - because there's a lot of conflict and emotion packed into a condensed space. But there's hope and humor and a resolute determination to keep on keeping on, too. I admire that most of all.

If you check it out, you may come to love Trish's work as much as I do. (And that's a lot.) She's not on OS... yet. But we can work to fix that. ;-)

Happy Almost Friday, friends. Oh, and BTW: "It is the stupid economy."

'Poor, poor me' - According to Trish, Nov. 2, 2011