Mother Nature and Old Man Winter
Although I still toy with the idea of moving to somewhere more remote and with more nature surrounding me, I am so happy to be where I am and I […]
Category Archives: Downtown
Christmas 2020
It’s 2021 and Christmas seems far away already. But we had a very cozy and quiet December culminating in a . . . cozy and quiet holiday. Very different from […]
I Love Cheap Thrills
Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun… on vacation. Vacation wins: I booked directly with the hotel chain and joined their rewards club (for free) and got a […]
Adapt, Create, Nurture, Ponder
August. When you kind of want to go to the pool but not really. When you sort of want school to start but not really. When you feel like you […]
Summer Spending
We are past Memorial Day and into summer, which means it’s time to figure out just how much all the summer fun is going to cost me. The town pool […]
June, She Comes So Soon
Busy busy busy, but spring soccer has finally wrapped up and Flat Stanley is finished, ostensibly the last Flat Stanley project that I’ll ever oversee. The Blacktop Bash has come […]
This Never Happened
Wow, it’s May 19. How did that happen? Sorry for the gap in blogging. To find out what happened, I refer you to my memoir, set to be published in […]
Calamity Kitchen
Happy holidays from the McGuires’, where the house is still kind of trashed and many surfaces still bear a dusting of fire extinguisher residue. But more on that later! We […]
Goodbye No. 1
Last Saturday was my final farm shift. Wah! Sad day. “Thanks for a being a member,” I said to everyone, all day as they came and went. “Thank you,” they […]
Slow Burn
Here we are at the end of September October beginning of November. I don’t remember what all happened at the end of the summer except it rained a lot and […]
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