So it’s Jan. 11, and the Christmas tree is still up. Whoops. I like to think that opting to go to the gym on weeknights and visiting my best friend…
Patience
I absolutely love this time of year. I love the sense of a new beginning, even a calendar-driven one. I love how the current starkness and coldness of nature provides…
Hope and a Holiday
“Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.” ― Anne…
Election Day pizza
As a political reporter, Election Day night meant either stuffing my face with pizza with butt parked in front of my computer in the newsroom, waiting for results to come…
Halloweenie
I don’t really get into Halloween in the dressing-up and partying sense, but I do fully embrace my Halloween homeowner duties. I hang orange-colored lights and put out plug-in pumpkins….
Merry Leap Day
Four years ago, back in the days when I posted to this blog not once but twice daily (those were the days), I decided to do 29 new things on…
There was more than one turtle present at the birth of Jesus
I successfully completed my pre-Christmas staycation this afternoon. I’ve seen two movies since I last posted, got a pedicure and baked some Christmas treats. Doggie Christmas treats, that is. You…
Cornbread and snowflake lights
Thanks for all your kind words on the last post. It was cathartic to write, and I hope that maybe, just maybe we can spread some extra kindness in the…
Bird’s the word
I haven’t been cooking as much lately out of sheer lack of time, but when I have cooked I have made it COUNT. Like when I sort of winged a…
Deck the Stills
Judging by the responses on yesterday’s post, I’m not the only one who’s broken the no-Christmas music-before-Thanksgiving rule. Show of hands … who’s bookmarked a Christmas station on Pandora already…
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