I’m not much of a consumer of video media. When I was a kid, I watched TV (shout out to Saturday morning cartoons and 80s sitcoms!). Many of the movies I wanted to see, I wasn’t allowed to see (parents: giving exposure and having conversations is better than sheltering). By junior high, I was involved … Read more
Tomorrow, May 1, I am celebrating six months of writing and posting every day. I have always loved writing, even as a kid. I was always redirected to math, and maybe internalized some of the “you’re not very good at writing.” Though I’m not sure that was true, necessarily. <shrug> I don’t know. I did … Read more
Yesterday, The Kid had his last track meet of the season. Because it’s hot here now, the meet started at 7 instead of 8. Call time remains an hour before the meet starts. Yesterday’s meet was just over half an hour’s drive from here. I was up at 4:30. Early morning temps were nice, but … Read more
I used to need to be distracted to be able to get through a workout, especially running. Nowadays, I often look forward to the time for quiet thinking. Not just because it’s quiet (see: elementary band teacher and mom to a loquacious 7-year-old) but because there is something different about the thinking that happens on … Read more
I go through waves of being content with what I have and wanting to buy lots of stuff. I’m currently wanting to buy stuff. I like to read books, and I prefer them on paper, but a Kindle would be simpler for travel. Should I buy a Kindle? It would be nicer on my eyes … Read more
…my senior recital. For those who didn’t go through this, a senior recital is a big deal (for most of us). As an education major, I was required to perform a 30-minute solo recital as one of my graduation requirements. (I could have instead performed a 30-minute jury, which means just for a panel of … Read more
I’ve always been an introvert. I’ve not always know I wasn’t defective. I have never been comfortable around strangers. I have no idea whose house we were at, but they had a piano. I must have been pretty young, because when I was in elementary school, my parents bought a piano and my sister took … Read more
I’m here today to give some confidence to the slow and less enthusiastic among us. I’m a runner. I’m slow. Lately, I’ve been running 12- to 12.5-minute miles. At the fastest I’ve ever been, I ran 5K in 29:20 (or something close to that). Once. (I had only one other 5K under 30 minutes. It … Read more
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
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