I've been away from the library now for about two months. I don't talk about it much because there are a lot of mixed emotions there. I spent six and a half years in that job, and it was easily the most enjoyable I've held so far. But the way I left and the reasons... Continue Reading →
Summer weather is undeniably here. We've had heat advisories the last several days as temperatures remind me of my elementary school days (which is to say, "in the mid-90's") and humidity thickens to the point that just stepping outside results in a fine sheen of sticky sweat. It's kind of terrible, but a sick part... Continue Reading →
I don't know what I'm allergic to, I mean aside from amoxicillin and plastic band-aids. I didn't experience seasonal allergies until I went to college, and then it was something that would blow in every autumn. I've avoided it the last couple years; I think masking up to avoid COVID helped keep lots of stuff... Continue Reading →
Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebration has once again flooded my media with news of the British royal family, as happens every so often. I always view it as sort of "soft news," and a welcome break from the heavy, anxiety inducing, end-of-the-world topics typically comprising the news. After all, the royal family has no real effect... Continue Reading →
We just got back from a weekend with my parents at the lake. Growing up in central Missouri, I was aware of two lakes. Almost anyone I encountered outside of my immediate family referring generally to "the lake" meant Lake of the Ozarks, and if my family was saying "the lake," it meant Truman Lake.... Continue Reading →
Okay that title is almost entirely inaccurate, because it's not me, it's a plant, and it's not really little, and more tall and thin than short and stout, and it's actually a tea cup not the pot, and if we're getting really technical it was labeled as coffee cup, but all the research I did... Continue Reading →
Some people spend years of their lives researching folklore and staked-out in remote locations to find concrete evidence confirming the existence of their favorite cryptids. I seem to be one of the lucky few who lives in the opposite of that pursuit: in going about my daily life, cryptids appear to be seeking me out.... Continue Reading →
I did it! We did it! We did the thing! Saturday was sunny and pleasant and after taking a nice long morning walk to a new local coffee shop to tire out the dog and energize ourselves, and then working on a few things around the house, I stepped outside to discover that it had... Continue Reading →
Ha-HA! Now you have the Sesame Street theme song stuck in your head! I've been quiet on here for a couple days again. I've been writing, just not this. And since I've been writing things I'm not ready to share, and because it's been raining, I didn't really have much to report. We have sunshine... Continue Reading →
My husband and I have lived in southwest Missouri for about seven and a half years. We moved from central Missouri, a distance of about 200 miles. Seven and a half years seems like a decently long time, and 200 miles is really not that far (it's not even half of how far the Proclaimers... Continue Reading →
