Two weeks ago I broke out of my comfort zone and joined a Zoom cooking class. The teacher was Meredith Laurence, my favorite chef you’ve likely never heard of. She used to be a brand spokesperson on QVC but she’s…
Show Us Your Books November 2020
Someday, some intrepid scholar doing her PhD dissertation on blogs in the early 2000s will find my blog and others like it and be shocked. “With everything going on in 2020, people still chronicled the mundane details of life like…
What I’m Watching: A Simple Swedish Life
Since Schitt’$ Creek and The Good Place ended, I’m having a bit of a struggle getting into TV shows. Right now I crave light, warm, wholesome programming. If I’m going to cry, I need it to be because I’m choked…
Election Day 2020
It’s all come down to this day. I wrote and sent hundreds of postcards for downballot Democrats across the country. I donated money to political campaigns that I believed in. I texted with Victory 2020. The last wave of initial…
Halloween 2020
This year our town decided to go ahead with trick or treating, with caveats. They encouraged everyone to wear a mask, that trick or treating groups be limited to households, and that candy be given away at a decent distance….
October Extras 2020
Photos and thoughts from October that were a little thin for their own post. I ordered a letter board a few months back and although it is the pinnacle of late twenty-teens white lady decorating, I enjoy changing it at…
Our Office Annex
WM and I are both working from home, likely until the end of the world. We usually share the office. However, he teaches via Zoom all morning so if I have a morning meeting, I relocate to the upstairs “office…
The ballad of Brunhild
June, 2020: Me: I need to get the Brunhild (the older of our Jeeps) inspected.COVID: LOL!State of New Jersey: *Extends inspection deadline until December 31, 2020.* Two Weeks Ago: Me: Time to get Brunhild inspected!Brunhild: (dead)WM: *replaces battery* Friday: Me:…
What I’m listening to: Chillhop
This is a genre I had never heard of before the cursed year of 2020 when even the “Add Water” light on the coffeemaker is enough to kick me down an anxiety hole. Chillhop has been around for a few…
World of Warcraft: Lyotta is 40!
And she bought a sweet, skeletal ride! I’m enjoying my second tour through Classic WoW. It’s almost like living the “if you could go back in time knowing what you know now…what would you do differently?” trope. My first time…
Murphy, October 2020
A warm hello to those found this site via my Postcards to Voters blog post which picked up some traction on Twitter! This is an old-fashioned blog, with a some journaling, some photos, some food, some pets, some hobbies, some…
Postcards to Voters
As part of my evolution into baby activist, I have been writing with Postcards to Voters for over two years now. (I signed up in October 2018, which is another reason I’m happy I keep a blog.) And while we…
