January 10, 2019
I am not Marie Kondo. But I could be Marie Kondo. Nah, just kidding. I will never be Marie Kondo. For one, she seems to be everything that is quiet and calm and zen, and – though I am very capable of being quiet and spending days doing it – my head is not remotely zen.... Read more...
January 02, 2019
I’m not even going to try to cutely ease into this one. JoHn* is on Instagram. No, no. It’s tragic. Like, for me. For a few years now, and yes I mean a few years, JoHn has been saying that – maybe – he ought to consider making a Facebook account. That was it. Facebook. That was... Read more...
December 28, 2018
When the writer Anne Lamott was 48 hours away from becoming sixty-one years old, she wrote down “every single thing I know as of today”. I have visited that list often (it’s easy to find on the interweb). Also Ms. Lamott has even done a TED talk about the list, though her TED talk has... Read more...
Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder
Okay. Let me get this out of the way right now. I have permission to tell this story, directly from the perp. Also, yes, the... Read More
One funny moment after Jack proposed to Mac (and Mac dissolved, pretty much, into a melted snowman puddle (but recovered quickly enough for us... Read More
This spring morning I awoke to the conversations of a thousand winged beings. And as I yawned and stretched I realized… This was nature’s... Read More
Every Easter Sunday morning since First Born Mac was puny (pew-knee), there has been a rather loud and massive hunt for candy. The Easter... Read More