Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

I took the boys out around lunchtime yesterday to shop for their dad. We do this for each other and it’s cute and getting more touching. When they were little they used to pick things that were obviously for THEM and not US – “Dad wants a Batman toy!” “Mom wants this giant cuddly stuffy!”…

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…

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…

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…

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…