I spent two weekends this month driving across the Southwestern United States traveling both toward and away in an undulation that highlighted a little bit of what it feels like to come and go. Away from our home, toward my husband’s family. Away from our family and toward our home. Leaving as I was going … [Read more…]
It’s been one of those weeks. The kind where you have concert tickets for Sunday night, and you do not realize until Wednesday morning that you did not go to said concert. You stayed in town expressly for the purpose of going to the concert, you had it written on the calendar on your computer … [Read more…]
There are plenty of moments when I get sucked into the phantasia that is the internet, shuffling my way blindly through articles and blogs and videos and lists and quizzes until I discover way more than I ever imagined I could. And while some of these forays into the world wide web are totally guilty … [Read more…]
What do you do when you get a haircut that makes you look like an altar boy? In my earlier days, I would have stared in the mirror pulling on the offending strands, my face covered in tears, hoping to force them to look the way that I imagined in my head when I first … [Read more…]
It’s been a wild and crazy couple of months for me. I’ve had the joy of participating in two field courses that were the last two classes for my MS in biology. One class was in the mountains and one was at the beach. One was a two-week adventure in trapping mice and shrews and … [Read more…]
Blogs are tricky because you want to write to keep them alive, but like Christmas and birthdays, I don’t just want to come up with something because the date is dictating that I produce. I want to be inspired. I want to have something that grabs ahold of me and doesn’t let go. It’s been … [Read more…]
I was going to put off this post because I wasn’t in the mood to grapple with it or face it or admit that maybe I’m right sometimes, even to myself. I was going to just dodge it and write about something less personal like my love of coffee or my desire to someday go … [Read more…]
A few weeks ago my husband went on a business trip to Minnesota. Given that it was about -10 degrees most of the time he was there, I was not too sad to be hanging at home in sunny southern California. I miss winter and snow. I do not miss freezing snot and chapped eyeballs. … [Read more…]
When I was a kid there was a sheep farm down the road from my house, and I always wanted to cross over the fence and be with the sheep. I lived in what might be called the boondocks, and I loved it. In the fall, herds of deer would race through our backyard and … [Read more…]
When I was in eighth grade, a friend tried to convince me that country music was the music of the future, but I would have none of it. By the time I was in college, I had caught the fever, and I remember making a late night run with another dear friend to grab Faith … [Read more…]