I’ve been more and more inspired by how cool old-fashioned blogging used to be, back when we weren’t instructed to end posts with a question in order to inspire conversation and inevitably monetization. Back when posts were smaller and some…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 9
Friday 5: Food for getting in shape
Happy Friday, which is also National Sticky Bun Day (mmm!) and National Grain-Free Day. I should tell Mom that, as she adheres to a gluten-free diet. Keeping it short today, as I’m freaking tired of sitting at a computer. One…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 8
Sunday thoughts
I know this discourse is long behind us, but the Superbowl ads were either absurd, evangelical, or straight up body horror. Seal as a seal? Eugene Levy’s fugitive eyebrows? Eli Manning riding on a giant blue foot? Tom Brady’s arm…
Friday 5: Step by Step
Happy Friday! It’s Valentine’s Day! It’s also National Cream Filled Chocolates Day (yes to all but raspberry), National Organ Donor Day (take it all, I won’t need it) and National Ferris Wheel Day. I LOVE Ferris Wheels and I hope…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 7
My favorite WDW souvenir
Five years ago I knew the world was going to change real soon, but I was in the unenviable spot of not a lot of people believing me. And for a long stretch of 2020 and a shorter stretch of…
Friday 5: The pompatus of love
Happy Friday, which is also National Periodic Table Day and National Fettuccine Alfredo Day. WM and I were talking not long ago about how neither us had any use for anything we learned in Chemistry class in our adult lives….
Mary Oliver Devotions: Blue Horses & Dog Songs
I’m slowly making my way through this Mary Oliver collection. I recently finished two more sections, and here are here are my thoughts/interpretations.. (I AM NOT AN ENGLISH MAJOR. I MIGHT BE WRONG. THIS IS AN EXERCISE FOR ME.) Blue…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 6
What I read in January 2025
It is NO secret that my reading hit a wall since 1) I stopped commuting to work every day and 2) I discovered TikTok. But this month I finished a book I started in November and could finally take my…
