I was trying to take a photo for Murphy for the Boop My Nose Instagram account* but he was not having it. WM, walking by: You should submit this to that Boop Nose account you love.**Me: See, this is definitely…
Back to the (Home) Office
I was on ‘vacation’ last week which basically means I was not online for work. I *was* online for an annual conference of a professional organization that *I’m* a member of. Background: I work for TNP, an association for medical…
What I Learned during the Pandemic (So far)
How to make refrigerator bread and butter pickles How to keep a sourdough starter alive and bake bread with it What Rt means with regards to an infectious disease How to make 14 common cocktails How to identify the birdcalls…
Show Us Your Books SPRING/SUMMER 2020
You see what I did there with the title? Friends, I’m having a reading problem. It’s really really hard for me to read right now. Even the fun, summer, beachy books that I love are a slog, because every time…
Sunshine, Sadness, and Social Distancing
2020 continues to be a gigantic mirror maze. When we’re finally comfortable enough to move forward a few steps we run right into a pane of glass. New Jersey is slowly ‘opening back up’ because our transmission rate has fallen…
The One with the Unfriending
We’ve known each other for a long time but we’re from an era where when you lost touch, you truly lost touch. Because of that I was initially delighted to get back in touch via social media. And for years…
Black Lives Matter
I can’t write anything about the state of racial affairs in the USA right now that hasn’t been written better by many other people. I’m not a paragon of enlightenment or a scholar on civil rights history. I’ve moved through…
Sourdough Bread!
I have always loved sourdough bread. And while I’m a decent baker, making my own sourdough was never within reach. Sourdough differs from regular bread because it doesn’t use conventional yeast. Instead, you grow your own yeast within your own…
My curse
The first half of my life I never put anything away and was plagued by wasting time trying to find things in every single room. Here in the back nine of my life, I put things away, but because I…
A (Work)Day in the Life
I used to work from home one day a week — usually Mondays. As of March 16th all of us at TNP are working from home until June 1st at the earliest. Here is a typical work-from-home day… 7:30 –…
Angry Man Farm 2020
(celebrating one year of success!) In the middle of all of the abnormality and fear, the days grew longer and springtime returned. It seemed weird planning for a future in a world that seemed so dire, but I’m not going…
Will it ever feel right again?
The outside world, that is. States are (foolishly, imo) opening up again. Not NJ because we’re still throbbing with illness and death, with our long term care/nursing homes being hit hardest. For months now I’ve been watching the cases creep…
