“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” Maya angelou
Friday 5 (on Saturday): Into the Groove
Happy Saturday! I could have cheesed it and pre-dated this post to appear as if I wrote it yesterday but nah. I’m holidaying it up this long weekend and I am tardy. Here’s the Friday 5, titled Into the Groove….
Wordless Wednesday 2024: Week 48
On letting the office go
I knew this date was coming, but as of November 22, TNP has vacated our office in Philadelphia. It was inevitable, really, because we never went back to the office (I’d have been fine with a 3/2 split) and rent…
Friday 5: And the world laughs with you
Happy Friday, which is also National Cranberry Relish Day. I don’t recognize that photo at all because my preferred cranberry side comes in a can and has ridges on the side of it. I’ve been absent for a while. I…
Wordless Wednesday 2024: Week 47
Some words: I still work for TNP, but we are letting our office in Philadelphia go this week.
Wordless Wednesday 2024: Week 46
Wordless Wednesday 2024: Week 45
Some words: Well, didn’t that fall apart quickly? Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, both wildly accomplished and capable women who ran two completely different campaigns, lost to Donald Trump. Joe Biden, an accomplished and capable and very old man, beat…
Election Day 2024: Nauseous optimism
Nauseous optimism is the phrase making its way around my blue side of the internet about today’s election. I was hopeful with only a tiny amount of dread in 2016, thinking there’s be NO WAY this country would vote for…
Friday 5: Look who decided to show up
Rabbit rabbit! Happy Friday, which is also National Cinnamon Day (I like) and National Calzone Day (I also like). It’s also the day after Halloween. We had fewer kids visit this year; about 57 total. In prior years we used…
If Adam Picked the Apple
A poem by Danielle Coffyn There would be a parade, a celebration, a holiday to commemorate the day he sought enlightenment. We would not speak of temptation by the devil, rather, we would laud Adam’s curiosity, his desire for adventure…
