A Week in the Life: February 15, 2020
This week I’ve been contemplating the idea that it’s much more work to be kind and generous in this life than it is to be an asshole. It’s eas...
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A Week in the Life: February 7, 2020
Have you registered to vote yet? Only 61 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot in 2016, which leaves a lot of room for improvement. You can register online h...
A Week in the Life: January 17, 2020
I had another week of feeling messed up, but today I am feeling a lot better. It has been hard to motivate or be interested in things lately. Yesterday I had so...
A Week in the Life: January 3, 2020
Last Friday seems like a really long time ago, but perhaps our arbitrary new year starting in the middle of the week made me feel like everything should reset. ...
2019: The 12th Annual Year in Books
This year I read 73 books, which is a lot! Last year I read 58 and my average for the previous decade of reading was 52 books per year. This is the second-most ...
A Week in the Life: December 20, 2019
This week felt incredibly long to me. Is it the approaching winter solstice? Impeachment? Christmas anticipation? I don’t have answers, only more question...
A Week in the Life: December 13, 2019
Two house drama sagas were resolved this week: the ants and the shower. To be fair, the ants were resolved on the day they started. My duct tape barricade was e...
A Week in the Life: December 6, 2019
Nothing makes me feel old quite like when December rolls around and I exclaim, “Wow, December already! The year has really flown by.” Every year fli...
A Week in the Life: November 22, 2019
This week we settled back into our non-vacation, oxygen-rich lives, but our return was not unmarked by drama. Just a few hours after coming home from Peru, my m...
A Week in the Life: September 27, 2019
It’s finally fall! It was stupidly hot for most of this week but at least there are shorter days upon us. I don’t know exactly why I revel in this s...