I’m still chugging away at pleasure reading. I make myself read for 20 minutes a night, which doesn’t sound especially pleasurable but I’m always happy I did it. When my timer goes off, if I want to keep going, I…
Friday 5: Freestyling!
Happy Friday! Today is National Joe Day (always relevant), and National Scribble Day (a holiday about my penmanship?). It’s also the day before I fly to Nashville for TNP’s Annual Conference. I’m packed and ready and hoping the TSA lines…
DIY Miniature Easter basket ornaments
My mother decided to keep her Christmas tree a bit longer and made it a Valentine’s Tree and now an Easter tree. (We listen and we don’t judge.) Naturally, this called for new ornaments. While Nephews A and B contributed…
Currently: March 23, 2026
Reading: Wuthering Heights. I’ve never read it before and although I’m only four chapters in, it’s definitely wild and weird and wuthering. Drinking: Diet Dr. Pepper, as always. Watching: Bridgerton, still creeping through one episode per week. Even if you…
Friday 5: Wanderlust
Happy Friday! I’m tossing aside the usual National Day discourse because today, my friends, is the first day of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. It has been a long, cold winter. I’m the best version of myself in spring…
