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Dried mango and macadamia nuts. These are my two current favorite snacks. I can eat them together or separately, and I can eat them in significant quantity. Costco sells both. For a while, I stopped buying the mango altogether—it’s easier when it’s just not in the house—and I was just reintroduced to macadamia nuts a … Read more
I’m in a few photo groups online. In one of them, people are up in arms about Dr. Seuss Enterprises suing photographers for doing Grinch photo shoots. Except they own the Grinch. It’s not your creative work. You wouldn’t want someone to steal your photos and use them to make money for themselves. Don’t do … Read more
Have you seen Alex Honnold’s TED Talk? Alex was the protagonist in Free Solo, a movie about one of his climbing pursuits. He’s famous for free soloing, as the movie title says, which is rock climbing without gear. Normally in rock climbing, one wears a harness that is tied into a rope that is secured to … Read more
I know they’re important. Really important. I get it. Maybe I hate it because I’m not good at it. But where does one go to get feedback or training on title-writing? The only training I’ve had has talked about titles as a means of getting clicks (“Use numbers! Five ways to write great headlines!”), and … Read more
Aside from a commission to take some photos of Legos, I didn’t pull out the Nikon this week. (I will spare you the Lego photos!) The week upcoming, I have off, so there is at least time available, if I take advantage. But there are more shots from last week’s walk around the neighborhood. I … Read more
Saturday last weekend, I was at a funeral for the husband of a coworker. I know this coworker strictly at work. We’ve never talked about life outside the building; we’re not connected through any social media. During the service, they played a slideshow, trying to capture this man’s life. (Can you ever really capture it?) … Read more
For a long time, peanut brittle was one of my favorites. And it was an infrequent treat, which made it even more delightful. It’s been years, maybe decades, since I had peanut brittle. There was some at work the other day. I took a piece. Or two… And you know what? It wasn’t that delicious. … Read more
The Kid is learning to read. I mean, he’s in the years-long process of learning to read. He loves to read. Part of that is that he reads things that are interesting to him. It doesn’t have to be books. It doesn’t have to be at his reading level. Whatever is interesting. Sometimes, he likes … Read more
I was in the ER last night (I’m OK—no worries). The two nurses who most often attended me were very personable and seemed to know what they were doing. Except they sucked at putting in IVs. Now, I know my veins are small. Through my cancer journey, I had ample opportunities for nurses and techs … Read more
Schools in this area have an evacuation site. If, for whatever reason the whole school needed to be evacuated, where would we all go? At my first job in Arizona, the steak house was mentioned. New to the local area and vegetarian, I couldn’t think of any steak houses nearby … and also thought that … Read more