I finally got around to reading On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. It is a pretty quick read — I knocked it out in one sitting. And it vaguely made me feel… better? I mean, don’t get me wrong: I do not feel good today. But I think that I’d … [Read more…]
I haven’t posted for a while because I’ve been exceptionally busy for the last month. We spent a week around Christmas in Savannah, Georgia, where I have family. The weekend after we returned home, Cute W and I went the Out of the Blue Festival — more on that later. We arrived home late on … [Read more…]
Way back in May, I was sharing some long-ago photos (Throwback Photos 1 & Throwback Photos 2), and at the time, I promised a Style Icon post as well. I thought I had a bunch of images, but then when I started writing, I only found two pictures! At first, I started to post it … [Read more…]
Things have been a little hectic with gearing up for the holidays. At the moment, we’ve yet to have both kids home simultaneously, and there’s a lot of traveling hither, thither, and yon over their break. It feels like the combination of a late Thanksgiving and organizing for these trips has made me more discombobulated … [Read more…]
I don’t know how all this started. That’s wrong: I do. I was scrolling through my (old lady) Facebook feed and saw two recipes in a row that looked so gross that I laughed and took a screen shot, thinking I might mock it here, with all of you. I don’t even remember what that … [Read more…]
We did something unprecedented for Thanksgiving this year: Cute W and I split up. With M in Iowa and J in Massachusetts, neither of them were up for trying to fly over the short-and-hectic holiday weekend. As she has since starting college, M caught a ride with a friend to her grandparents’ house in Kansas … [Read more…]
I am still on a full news hiatus. If there’s anything happening at all in the world of politics, I only know about it accidentally. I know I’ll have to pay attention again at some point (and that the fact that I don’t have to be on personal hyper threat alert is pure unearned good … [Read more…]
For my birthday, we had a fancy date. First, we headed to Proctors to see Hadestown. This was a stroke of luck because I’m on the Proctors mailing list, and they had a flash sale, $30 tickets for a couple of different shows if you bought them on September 30th. When I saw that Hadestown … [Read more…]
So, I’d been collecting links for this for a while now, and I’d originally planned to contrast the delightfully non-toxic masculinity of Gus Walz, Doug Emhoff, and Mayor Pete & his Chasten with the Republicans and this Theo Bro situation, but I never got around to it and now it is moot because we are … [Read more…]
I’ve been on a homemade cracker kick lately. Mostly because I am a bit of a cracker snob, and I like crackers that are packed with delightfully nutritious ingredients, but those crackers are just super-expensive. And making crackers really isn’t too difficult. The last time I hosted our documentary group, I decided to make a … [Read more…]
