Trying something different in May, a spin on daily concepts we have talked about many times. I am curious to see how the month will take shape and am hoping this will rekindle something approximating the kind of “daily” that was, for a while, such a big part of me. [...]
When I posted earlier this week about ‘threes,’ I was only halfway serious. I was poking fun at myself and the seemingly unrelated string of odd events all in rapid succession. Maybe it is my way of standing up and roaring to the ether that I am still here, still [...]
I fell off a skateboard on Sunday. (Yeah, umm, okay… we could talk about why I was on a skateboard. Not a lot of damage, but still…) Then on Tuesday, I got rear-ended. (Not a lot of damage but still…) As I drove home from this morning’s pair of [...]
While I was working in the kitchen the other night, I needed paper towels. Maximizing my efforts, I bundled up a bag of trash and headed down to the garage. When I came back up, ready to resume dinner-making, I realized I had forgotten the paper towels. I gathered up [...]
I have been wanting to try this list widget… to see if it will help me move things from here to there… from the void to the blog. There used to be segments in the podcast (way back in the beginning) that were random assortments… maybe not quite this random [...]
No Fear of the Blank Page Here. This was a bit ago… after we spotted a Townsend’s Warbler (yellow and black with mask!) for the first time in a bush across from the house as we were going to the park to make a “first” YouTube video about folding paper [...]
[Phone photo: A little journal for a new year.] Waking up on a school morning has never been an easy process for one of my kids. One wakes up at first prompting; the other needs a bullhorn without the bull or horn. While I remember growing up with a light [...]
Decadent. I bought two things in the last few months that were decadent (for me). Both are indulgences that I had wanted but put off, money being tight for most of the last few years and such purchases seeming, to me, unnecessary even if desired. The story of my first [...]
Saturday, January 5. Almost a week in, and it feels like it is just now the New Year, as if today should rightly be the start. Much of the last two weeks was spent gathered around the table (my sewing machine and piles of books and bins of fabric and [...]
December 24, 2012 In my house, it is Christmas Eve. A Christmas Eve that slipped upon us, as many of them do. I had plans for this December, and none of them came to fruition. An unexpected week in the hospital changed everything. Luckily, my online shopping was mostly done. [...]
This post was drafted and stashed on 10/08/12. I am now much farther in this series than I was then. I am clearly regressing. Signs of it have been smattered across the last year as the kids and I have worked our way through far too many Disney series and [...]
Thinking as the Precursor to Doing. I seem to be becoming a master of wasting time. The November-December days of “list-building,” coupled with the allure of the vapor-thin chance that something on someone’s list will show up in one of the changes-every-hour-over-the-next-seven-days sales at Amazon, make it all too possible [...]
Do you have suggestions for favorite games (beyond the ordinary/classics)? Mostly looking for dice or card-oriented games, but also looking at other styles. In poking around at Amazon, here are a few I wonder about. If you have input on any of these, please share! If you have other suggestions [...]
Once I was organized. I am very much an ‘organization’ type. I like lists. I like things neat. I like order. I like school supplies and pens and new journals and blank books. And yet I can never find anything. My things and spaces are a mess. And, increasingly, chaos [...]
Steamroller Saturday. (Note: I forgot my camera. These are all basic cell phone pics, for the record of it… not the photography.) After a long and fruitless soccer game on a turf field in the middle of the city, fenced in with a tall chainlink fence, bordered by a giant [...]
“40″ (A year quilt.) A Look Back. That’s how the interview with Tammy feels… like a look back through a long and winding forest road. I probably should have just drawn a regular pie-chart at the end. I hope some of you have a chance to read the interview — [...]
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