Some Amount of Time in the Life: August 16, 2020
This year’s onslaught of things that can kill us rages on. It’s 92 degrees at the time of this writing: 9:30 a.m (note: now that I’ve finished...
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Some Amount of Time in the Life: July 10, 2020
It’s been a little difficult to convince myself to write lately because it doesn’t feel like I’ve done anything noteworthy. Days are running t...
Two Weeks in the Life: June 21, 2020
I have this feeling lately like I’m the one being crazy for worrying about coronavirus. Despite the State of California now requiring people to wear a mas...
A Week in the Life: January 10, 2020
This week has been difficult for no tangible reason. I don’t know if it was hormones or what, but it felt like I had a mini-bout of depression for most of...
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: A Year in the Life
This year has been a lot. Living in these bullshit times is fatiguing. New political insanity on the daily makes every week seem like at least a month. It’...
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: July 5, 2019
I’ve been stressed this week. The 4th of July stresses me out because of fireworks noise and I know I won’t get to sleep. I’ve been stressed a...
Icelandic Update, or Is It Really an Update If I Haven’t Told You Before Now?
Here’s the thing: I decided to start learning Icelandic in January of this year. I had every intention of writing about the process. As even a cursory gla...