A Week in the Life: May 24, 2021
This has been another exciting week of human maintenance—I saw both my dentist and my optometrist. I went to the optometrist to get assessed for binocular visio...
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A Week in the Life: May 17, 2021
What a week! I celebrated my thirty-fifth birthday, received and rejected a job offer, and met a kitten that we might adopt! May 11 was my birthday, which is so...
A Week in the Life: January 30, 2021
Last week I said I was feeling okay about Viola’s death and, after this week, I’ve realized that was a premature assessment. I ordered a photo colla...
A Year in the Life: 2020
It feels a little weird to write this post. I know a number of people have been sharing memes saying they don’t need any year-end posts to make them feel ...
A Week in the Life: December 26, 2020
It’s Christmas and I’m on vacation! We had a nice Christmas at home and I don’t have to go back to work until after the new year, so I’m...
Two Weeks in the Life: December 19, 2020
We are embracing Christmas this year, not the least because I am highly invested in putting up lots of lights. We finally got some lights to put up on the outsi...
A Week in the Life: November 28, 2020
Thanksgiving was this week! I like Thanksgiving but, as others have said more eloquently than me, I like the food but I don’t give a damn about no pilgrim...
A Week in the Life: November 1, 2020
Happy Halloween and happy Día de los Muertos! We didn’t do much for Halloween, what with the ongoing pandemic, but we did leave out some candy for any tri...
A Week in the Life: September 20, 2020
Yesterday evening I discovered that our pantry was overrun by ants. I pulled out a fairly sticky bottle of honey only to discover that it was covered in them—ju...
A Week in the Life: September 6, 2020
In a surprising twist, I am writing this just about a week after my last post. Will this mark the return of weekly blogging? I’m not counting on it, but i...