We did something unprecedented for Thanksgiving this year: Cute W and I split up. With M in Iowa and J in Massachusetts, neither of them were up for trying to fly over the short-and-hectic holiday weekend. As she has since starting college, M caught a ride with a friend to her grandparents’ house in Kansas … [Read more…]
I am still on a full news hiatus. If there’s anything happening at all in the world of politics, I only know about it accidentally. I know I’ll have to pay attention again at some point (and that the fact that I don’t have to be on personal hyper threat alert is pure unearned good … [Read more…]
For my birthday, we had a fancy date. First, we headed to Proctors to see Hadestown. This was a stroke of luck because I’m on the Proctors mailing list, and they had a flash sale, $30 tickets for a couple of different shows if you bought them on September 30th. When I saw that Hadestown … [Read more…]
So, I’d been collecting links for this for a while now, and I’d originally planned to contrast the delightfully non-toxic masculinity of Gus Walz, Doug Emhoff, and Mayor Pete & his Chasten with the Republicans and this Theo Bro situation, but I never got around to it and now it is moot because we are … [Read more…]
I’ve been on a homemade cracker kick lately. Mostly because I am a bit of a cracker snob, and I like crackers that are packed with delightfully nutritious ingredients, but those crackers are just super-expensive. And making crackers really isn’t too difficult. The last time I hosted our documentary group, I decided to make a … [Read more…]
I voted yesterday. As I biked by the massive collection of political signs just beyond the boundaries of the town hall, I found myself enraged by a couple of signs which are utter and complete bullshit. These cries of “Protect Girls Sports” are a message opposed to Proposal 1. I turned my ballot vote over … [Read more…]
Things have been a bit hectic lately with quite a bit of travel hither and yon to catch the last games of M’s soccer career. One thing that means is that we’ve been traveling beyond the confines of our reliably blue state, so I’ve been leafletting like a 1940s pilot over Nazi territory. I don’t … [Read more…]
When I wrote my post about kayaking on the Mohawk River, I mentioned that I loved the way that folks in Colorado were making the most of their rivers. So here’s a look at what we found on our Colorado trip over the summer. At one point, we were walking around Golden, Colorado, and we … [Read more…]
(I wrote this one a few weeks ago, but then it fell by the wayside when I was sick.) “25 Maya, 20 Emily, 12 Campbell, 25 Maya, 20 Emily, 12 Campbell…” I am squinting at the livestream on TV, muttering the mantra to myself on the sofa over and over again, when it occurs to … [Read more…]
Okay, not that you don’t already know this, but every once in a while, I can’t help but complain about it just a little bit. So, this blog is a WordPress site. When I first got started, I had to decide how to do an actual blog, and it was a bit of a pain … [Read more…]
