This is a Thanksgiving post. There are others like it but this one is mine. Several readers of this blog live in other countries – Canada, England, and Australia, to name a few. I obviously don’t know what American Thanksgiving looks like from your perspective, but from here it looks something like one of…
I almost got into a car accident today. Clarification: I almost caused a car accident today. Double clarification: I almost listlessly drifted my car into another today. How? you may be asking. Great question! I was leaving the service department at the car dealership (yes, I’d just had it serviced. Makes the story better, doesn’t…
I went camping with the family last week. That meant three solid days off the grid, so things I would normally tweet didn’t get tweeted. Things like this: It rained excessively on Day 1, starting in the middle of the night and lasting until the following evening. Occasionally it would seem to let up, and we’d…
Have you looked at a picture of yourself, and you swear you don’t look like that? That’s because we generally have an inaccurate perception of ourselves. Part of it is because our mirror images are always reversed. I think the rest has something to do with the inability to control the elements around us. Like…
After reading Eclectic Alli’s post for #1000Speak for Compassion, I decided I wanted to participate in this month’s theme: connection. I’m using the term “craft” loosely for the purposes of this post. Consider it “the thing you do for fun and/or to make money”. Hopefully, whatever you do to make money also happens to be fun.…
So my husband is a sweet man. He’s thoughtful and spends time looking for gifts that he thinks I’ll like. It’s common knowledge among people who know me that I love owls. I have many things featuring owls. I’m at this very moment wearing a shirt with an owl on it. See? So it’s no…
There’s a hashtag going around on Twitter today: #20ThingsIWantFor2015. I thought the presence of “20” was amusing, because who can write about 20 things in 140 characters? Fortunately, I have a blog with unlimited characters. MWHAHAHA! That sounded more maniacal than I planned. Anyway. I’ll count down from 20. Because New Years. Some are serious,…
This post isn’t really about cheese. Though it would be nice to see cheese in my tag cloud. It’s about opinions – more specifically, it’s about others’ opinions about something you produced. Earlier this week, my friend posted a video of a Christmas light display (don’t try to play it; this is a pic of…
I had a pretty unusual day. School was delayed on account of the too-far-below-zero temperatures, and since I work in a school, so was work. I had time to run errands before work, and afterwards I decided to have lunch at a full-service restaurant by myself (note to fellow introverts: do this! It rocks!) and go sweater shopping before…
Halloween is coming, and there are some scary things in the news. Ebola. Isis. The election. *shudder* I read an article today that said as long as you don’t live in West Africa, your odds of contracting Ebola, even with the reported procedural lapses, are worse than your odds of being crushed to death by…
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