Before the pandemic, Kalen traveled pretty frequently for work, most frequently to San Francisco, Chicago, and Rhode Island, but he rarely got more than a week's notice for his trips. My previous employer required vacation requests to be submitted a month (more often, six weeks) ahead of time, so I only got to travel with... Continue Reading →
I know we all have those dreams that are so realistic that we're just shocked when we wake up, but do you ever have the opposite happen? Where you have to stop and really assess whether what's going on around you is real? I don't mean the theory that we're all living in a simulation,... Continue Reading →
When I was about 10 years old, my family attended a wedding reception for a couple of friends from church. Most of the typical wedding reception things held no interest for me and I didn't know many of the people there, but a friend from my Sunday school was there with her parents. After we... Continue Reading →
I worked on various non-blog related things all day, all weekend, in fact, and was doing a pretty good job of getting things accomplished IRL. Then something happened and I thought, "I can write about that! I've got a story to lead into it, it's relatable, a little self-deprecating. Perfect." So I open up WordPress... Continue Reading →
I took Pippin on our usual morning walk through the neighborhood and was thinking about what to write next. Sometimes I think in my head and sometimes I think out loud which gets me a few strange looks, but it also augments my natural "I'm kind of a weirdo" vibes and serves as added protection... Continue Reading →
It's after Thanksgiving now, which means it's officially acceptable for me to upgrade autumn things for winter things, but it also means that I'm in that post-holiday turkey-induced slump where I don't have much energy or motivation to trudge up to the attic and dig out the Christmas decorations, so I'm just going to write... Continue Reading →
I've been writing a little less than usual because I've been doing a little less than usual. The weather has turned positively wintery (we even had the tiniest dusting of snow this week!) and most of my activities have been boring, routine maintenance things like making sure that the hoses got disconnected from the outside... Continue Reading →
Eons ago, when Facebook had only just begun its rapid decline into rabid division, I enjoyed with one afternoon's lunch a particularly delightful piece of bread. The flavor was developed and balanced, the crust crackly and golden, and the inside open and exquisitely chewy. It was the chewiness that got me that day, the shining... Continue Reading →
There was a time in my past when I dreamt of owning a coffee shop. It was a nice dream. One slow morning at my first law office job, the boss asked me to make a pot of coffee. I don't think I made it to his liking because he never asked me to make... Continue Reading →
I still haven't gotten used to having all my plants inside for the winter which is good because it means I actually remember to water them. As I watered them this weekend, I noticed that two of my succulents have buds on them, which is exciting. I don't want to name the ones that have... Continue Reading →
