It is just slightly over 28 ½ miles from my house to my office in Sacramento by bike. I know this from first hand experience because this morning I decided that all the problems I had last week were most likely due to the heat, and that I really ought to just suck it up [...]
Little kids have been making crafts for their moms for Mother’s Day presents for years. They do them in Sunday school, or in preschool or elementary school. They usually involve a lot of paste or some form of cheap plastic trinkets, and sometimes flowers and other once-living components. And every once in a very long [...]
Since Richard was selected to be a library commissioner this meant that he got to march in the May Fair parade this year. I figured that this meant I had to at least go watch the parade, since every year we’ve lived in this town we’ve somehow managed to be out of town or otherwise [...]
I rode to work again this morning. This time the wind, such as it was, was with me the entire way there. This time I’d also prepared in advance – I now have a little bag of shower stuff in a drawer at work, along with an old, ratty towel which can just live there [...]
There were a lot of things I could be doing this weekend. After all, in only a few more days we are off to Ashland, which means there’s a lot of picking up around the house, and doing laundry, and paying bills, and all the other last minute chores that need to be done to [...]
I feel as if I hit the ground running on Friday and haven’t stopped since. After all, it was Friday evening I flew up for a far-too-short visit to my little sister and her family in Seattle. I flew back Sunday, giving myself just enough time to unpack, take a short nap, and toss in [...]
The past few days have been the most wonderfully relaxing days I’ve had in far, far too long. Switching hotels and moving to Ashland was the best thing we could have done. Everything is within easy walking distance of this hotel, even though it might occasionally be up some extremely steep hills (my calves still [...]
It is strange to be home, and somehow a bit of a relief. There is a part of me that wishes above all else that we could have stayed another week, although by the time we left we’d seen everything there was to see in the little downtown and a few more days of milling [...]
Good friends help you move. Real friends help you move your pregnant, laboring goat, which is leaking bodily fluids everywhere, into the shed where the vet has set up an emergency surgery center on a bale of straw. Even better friends hold your goat’s head and front legs while the vet slices open your goat [...]
I am now, as of yesterday, 35 years old. Not surprisingly, so far it feels absolutely no different than 34, which felt not a whit different than 33, which felt just about identical to 32, and, well, you get the idea. Yesterday was my birthday. There were presents. There was cake. There was a celebratory [...]
