It is 2024! I will do my annual check in posts, but also wanted to note that Gretchen Rubin (my favorite happiness expert) has suggested that we all try to write 24 in 24 – that is, write 24 minutes (OR, if it’s a hectic day, 2-4 minutes) every day in 2024. Last year we…
Author: RG
A Joyfully Chaotic Weekend
I am back in my former home of North Carolina for a visit and to play my old band’s reunion show. The show was scheduled for my seventeenth wedding anniversary, the same night as Jack’s first homecoming dance and the Professor’s first camping trip with the Scout troop he leads (Craig’s age). The logistics of…
Dreams
Some dreams I’ve had lately (I promise to keep this high level so it’s not brutally boring): First – I dream a lot about the house I lived in during middle and early high school. I barely remember the California house we moved to before my junior year of high school, but our house in…
Morning Chill
The day we thought would never come is here at last – the morning we first light our gas fireplace, because it is reasonably chilly outside. October 8 and it is at last 60 degrees at sunrise. (It was 77 at sunrise yesterday). Jasper is sacked out in front of the fire, and Twyla (we’ve…
Sixth Annual Fall Beach Trip
Some vignettes from our trip this weekend – this time at Pensacola: We appear to have developed a little habit that we probably should break ASAP. ‘Tis the habit of taking our annual fall beach trip, and then picking up a new furry family member on the way home. We’ve had Jasper a full year…