Vonnegut quote
“The most daring thing you can do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” Attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. I would love to do this, but I have no idea how. Thoughts?
Hope and excitement through plants
One of my biggest sadnesses in living in an apartment was not having space for garden beds (or not wanting to have to take out beds before moving out). I was happy to have a house with a yard when The Climbing Daddy and I bought this one! We’re in our second spring of gardening, … Read more
Popular in March
This is endlessly interesting to me. (To you, I don’t know.) The differences between what I like the best and put out there and what y’all like the best of what I’ve put out there. There’s also a divide lately between WordPress followers and “everyone else” (who is mainly made up of Facebook followers) between … Read more
Talking to myself, time travel edition
One of the reasons Americans are bad at making health choices or long-term financial planning is that we are disconnected from our future selves. There have been a couple of studies in the financial realm where, if shown an age-progressed photo of themselves, people invest more in their 401K options than if they’re shown a … Read more
I had a dream…
A week or so ago, I had a dream that I remembered when I woke up. A few details of it have stuck with me, and it’s been turning over in my head a bit… The dream below; side comments in brackets: I was racing my third Ironman. [I have never raced anything close to … Read more
Why invite people to a wedding?
For my first marriage, we were married in a church by a priest—one of the most thoughtful people I’ve ever met. In our meeting with him, he asked us, “What do you want guests to get out of your wedding ceremony?” What? This was a question I had never thought of, had never heard anyone … Read more
Poor people are still people
When The Tall Daddy and I split up, I moved out in January and was in a really bad position financially until August, after I had gotten one or two paychecks. The following is something I wrote at the time. I have edited it slightly, just to take out or clarify references to things that … Read more
See yourself through someone else’s eyes
The other day, I wrote about contributing to my school community. Another great thing happened in that little piece of the day. I’ve been struggling with many of my classes. Without getting into too many details, my classes are not your typical elementary band classes, because that approach hasn’t worked with the populations I teach. … Read more
If it’s carcinogenic, why is it for sale?
I wrote the other day about how I believe it’s prudent to be mindful about what we purchase, use, eat, drink because of negative health implications. It’s easy to be overwhelmed because there are so many carcinogens (and that says nothing of all of the crap that’s causing other adverse effects.) So if we know … Read more
Making a contribution
This post started as just a Facebook post and flowed very earnestly. It reached a length and depth where I decided to make it a blog post. I was very excited to post it until I got near the end, at which point it felt like useless prattling on. I decided that the feeling was … Read more