Kamala Harris won’t stop emailing me, the problems seeing bigger than any one candidate, everyone is slandering everyone, so after much research and deliberation, I’ve decided to to make this Apple Chess pie from Southern …
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My Vote
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I am a good person (?)
I felt like a very, VERY good person and planet steward when I ordered myself a bunch of reusable straws, but then I realized that I Amazon Primed them, which basically cancels out any goodness? …
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hand and foot and mouth and heart
Joe caught hand foot and mouth at day care, and his PERFECT PRECIOUS little hands and feet and face are covered in painful red blisters and bumps and I look at him trying to pull …
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a privilege
Some nights I can’t sleep because I ate too much cheese before bed and sometimes it’s because I just lay there crushed by the weight of my own privilege, and what I’m doing with it …
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750 million years
Last night I was reading about different North Carolina mountains in the official state magazine, like you do, and learned that Grandfather Mountain — one of my personal favorites — is 750 million years old. …
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buy now, think later
I don’t like money as much as I should. When I receive a big check for writing something, or even just regular, guild standard compensation, I know I should feel grateful and like I earned …
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what is thunder
It started storming here this morning around 4 AM, which happens in LA about, once a year? I stayed awake, worrying that the thunder would wake Joe up. I laid there planning out how I’d …
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The Great Believers
Sometimes, at the end of the day, I’m still awake enough to read a BOOK. It’s in fact my favorite way to step towards sleep. Lately it’s been The Great Believers, a BE YOO TI …
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march 2020
It being the 2 year anniversary, I keep thinking about March 2020 and how weird it all was. Morrison wouldn’t let me touch the groceries and I ordered toilet paper from some website that I …
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a thought about War
I sat down to blog today and I thought, I should offer a Thought about War. But who am I to offer one? Obama said it all first, and best. For some time now, we …