Heat Weirdlastname The day after Thanksgiving, we woke up to snowfall. I haven’t been in snowfall in a really long time. And since we were in a hotel, had nothing to shovel, had food in walking distance and nowhere else to be, it was lovely. View from our room, once the fog started to clear a little: … Read more
Tomorrow, The Kid is competing in his first taekwondo tournament. Because I’m taking classes as well, I was also invited to participate, but I’m not interested. Competing doesn’t do much for me these days. I like to play games, and I like to play hard (sometimes), but mostly, I’m not super-invested in winning. I like … Read more
The Climbing Daddy and I were lucky enough to get out of town for a couple of nights this weekend. We went up to Sedona, a town about two hours north of here. Sedona’s claim to fame is gorgeous red rock. A storm was passing through, and we didn’t expect to be able to do … Read more
Well… I only took one photo this week. Or, rather, I took a bunch of photos at once and got one that was decent. I was playing the silly photo game, but there was one where the top 10 got gift cards. I don’t usually play to win those things, but that would have been … Read more
Variables confound. As a kid, I was interested in a lot of things. In the six years of junior high and high school, I did band, orchestra, jazz band, marching band, flute choir, show choir, flute lessons, art lessons, basketball, softball, school plays, school musicals, German club, student council, creative writing. Not all of them … Read more
Gardening in Arizona—or at least in the low desert part of Arizona—is weird. Still. These photos are from our back yard garden. This has been in since the spring. A few eggplant came to be ripe while we were out of town over the summer, and since then, we’ve had nothing. My general policy is … Read more
It was a long, rectangular room, with posh reclining chairs lining three walls and turning the corners on the fourth. The remaining space had a counter with cabinets and maybe a sink behind it. I don’t remember more detail than that. Except that attached to the front side of the counter was a small Liberty … Read more
From my Facebook archives. I wrote a bunch to go with it, then decided it speaks for itself. Some students from my school were crossing a 6-lane street. They were half way across, and traffic stopped in order for them to complete their crossing. There were cars in only two of the three lanes. Someone … Read more
I recently discovered a new podcast: The Happiness Lab. It’s fairly new—there are only eight episodes so far—and I learned about it through a plug on Revisionist History. This coincided perfectly with a personal goal of adjusting my mindset in certain areas so I can be happier. Episode 3: A Silver Lining. They talked about … Read more
The sunset was pretty, but there aren’t any good vantage points very close by. And by the time I found a decent place to stand, most of the pink was gone. So I walked down the street to see what I could capture. Yesterday morning, we were trying to stage food to enter a “starts … Read more