Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

We take turns having panic attacks these days.   In summary, our choice seems crazy – give up a solid, decently paying job with good benefits in order to live as two graduate students in a new city with no family nearby and a one year old baby to raise.    Go into more details,…

You must allow your child to get into things, he says.  He must push the buttons on your television, he must climb onto your bookshelves.  He must burn his hand on the oven, and fall down.  He will experience the world.   The music in the bar is loud, and I sip my draught beer…

Your birthday dawned bright and fair. We had a houseful of family, and I was pretty ill. I had quite a bit to accomplish that day, and so when your uncle Clif handed me a Zyrtec, I decided to go ahead and take it. It made me thirsty and a bit sleepy, but cleared my…

The Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,650 mile continuous path stretching from Mexico, through California, Oregon, and Washington, terminating in Canada.  Tracing it along a map of the western states, your finger follows the curve of the Sierra Nevadas through California, flirting with the Nevada state line before jutting an elbow west toward the Sacramento…

I gave my notice.   3 months.   Rock.   Patrick is leaving me and Jack for the weekend.   Um, help?