Categorizing Things is Overrated

  • Cooking and Such

    Well I left that bleak post up quite a long while, and I’m sorry about that. Like everyone, I am experiencing the emotional “roller coaster” of quarantine – some days I’m amazing at…

  • Malaise

    The Saharan dust cloud has arrived on the Gulf Coast. It is hazy here, it’s been overcast for days. It rained all week, plus the dust haze, and I’m really, really sick of…

  • 100 Days of Solitude

    It is our One Hundredth Day of Quarantine. Technically, we have not been in this house for 100 days. We did take a Quarantine Vacation, subtitled, The Same Five People, Just In A…

  • Follow Friday (Saturday)

    Hello dollies. What a couple of weeks, right? I have done quite a bit of hand-wringing in my various social media feeds, and I find myself out of words in this more long-form…

  • Sunday Morning Meal Planning

    Yesterday, we expanded our quaranteam to include the family across the street. It has been 70 days since their son (age 11) and our boys (12, 9, 6) saw each other, or anyone…