Okay, friends. I think it is time to tell you about something I call Quick-Chores, which is a house-keeping tactic I’ve been playing with this year, to varying degrees of success. First, I should say that on the spectrum of people, I am the sort of people who neither enjoys housework, nor feels strongly compelled to do very much of it. I think I’m in a lot of pretty good company. Never-the-less, I do prefer a clean house to a…
Warning: This post contains thoughts about a big, existential sort of topic, triggered, in part but not in total, by the recent devastating fires in Maui. At the moment, I am able to approach it with curiosity, but that’s certainly not always the case, and it might not be the case for you right now. If you don’t want to be thinking about climate change and other slow-moving disasters, and what some of the potential follow-on affects might be, even…
Apparently flawed logic makes me nauseated. That…explains a lot, actually.
I am an introvert, and I like to travel. I also have anxiety, though, so those first two traits don’t always go together as well as you might like. I also like to go for walks (less scary). As a happy traveling/walking introvert, I was once asked by a friend of mine who is not an introvert what did I do while I was walking. She was baffled at how I would sometimes walk the two miles from campus to…
In this post, I shall present to you two different (but also the same) representations of my brain. Because you see, I have a lot of hobbies. I’m pretty sure my husband has more – and neither of us is also including the fact that we have kids into the tally – but I do think it’s fair to say that I have a lot. Once, when I was younger and complaining to my mom that there were so many…
content warning: Marshall fire, community disasters, evacuation In my very first blog post, I mentioned that starting this blog was a sort-of resolution I made at the beginning of 2022 after the Marshall fire. This was a big fire that happened in my home town right after Christmas. We had been having a very warm, very dry winter up until that point, and that day it was very windy (very windy for a place where they test wind turbines because…