I’d like to write today in honor of my friend, John Henry Thomas, an incredibly gifted and hardworking artist who passed away last month.   Here’s a picture of John from around when…

The past three months kind of sucked.   It was absolutely a first-world problem kind of suck, but they sucked nonetheless. At the start of September, I had scheduled a contractor to repair…

I just got back from my husband’s family reunion at the home of one of his brothers, in Minnesota.  It was in a truly beautiful small town in Minnesota: 10,000 people and five…

The past few weeks I’ve been completely overjoyed to have my regular work schedule back. I loved remembering what it felt like to make real progress, but also I kept thinking, “Oh, please,…

My daughter went back to in-person school this week, which was both exciting and annoying. Exciting for obvious reasons, and especially because she’s happy about it, and annoying because the school day…

So there I was, thinking, “When things quiet down and get a little more normal, I’ll write something new.” I checked, and my last blog post was on June 27, 2017. It…