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Home and Family

Musings on home, family, friends, and pets.

Gardening, Life, Pets, Work
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…
June 17, 2020
Gardening, Life
Angry Man Farm 2020

(celebrating one year of success!) In the middle of all of the abnormality and fear, the days grew longer…
May 4, 2020
Home and Family
Baking in the time of..

Yeah, I’m tired of the coronavirus references too. But they’re so easy! With no place to go on the…
April 5, 2020

I've been blogging for over 16 years and I'm apparently one of the few over-40 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun and unprofitable. No big.

~~Wife. Dog lover. Slob.~~ I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband WM, and our dogs Ollie and Murphy. I work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia. So if you're looking for a childless, slightly round, marginally boring GenX woman's blog to follow, you've come to the right place! :)

Kimberly's bookshelf: read

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Welp, that ended abruptly. The version I have includes additional short stories, which I thought were part of the book, so when this story ended, I thought the second half of the book would be the others' responses to ... the events that...

tagged: fiction, women, and own-ebook

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

So very good. Beautifully written, and really hits home. It was refreshing to read about feminism in a viewpoint other than that of my white, middle-aged, ladyfriends. :) Every middleschooler should be issued a copy of it. It was supe...

tagged: nonfiction, borrowed-from-library, and women

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

tagged: nonfiction, history, and women