What I read in February 2025
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers – Samuel Burr: After the death of his adoptive mother, young man abandoned on the doorstep of an eclectic commune of puzzle makers (and solvers) embarks on his own puzzle-fueled journey to find his parentage. The…
Friday 5: Animal kingdom
Happy Friday, which is also National Flapjack Day (mmm!) and National Speech and Debate Education Day. Sometimes I wish I had some debate education so that I can construct better arguments. But there was no way I’d join a debate…
Wordless Wednesday 2025: Week 10
Rabbit Rabbit! Happy March!
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…
