It’s been awhile since I’ve written here, a little over a year to be exact. I didn’t really plan to let it go that long, but I think there was a lot about 2021 that…
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Nostalgia, The Sopranos, and My Brother’s Privates
When I was a kid, my dad took one or two backpacking trips a year to Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior or the nearby Porcupine Mountains. Despite traveling the same terrain year after…
Social Media Break
I took a break from social media for the month of August. Specifically, I logged out of Facebook and Instragram on my phone and computer and only logged back in a couple of times to…
Anticipating Fall
One thing I love about getting older is that I feel like I’ve developed a stronger sense of time. The ideas that time is fleeting and passes too quickly are not lost on me, and…
The Problem with Comforting Conclusions
Kelly Corrigan, an author I love and someone I’ve mentioned before, has been doing weekly Instagram Live videos called “BYOB” since the stay-at-home orders started. This week, she talked about both personal and global struggles…
A Beef with Bread, and a Long Lost Love
Changing it up this week for something a little lighter. One of the good things that has come out of sheltering at home has been that I have reintroduced grilled cheese sandwiches into our dining…
The Way We Rally
“Eventually, this will pass.” “We’re gonna get through it.” I’ve heard those phrases a lot in the last couple weeks and there is a little voice in my head that keeps saying “not for everyone.”…
Prescribed Forms, for Blurry Days
So…it’s been a relatively uneventful week in my life, and a very full week in my head. I started and re-started a post for this week several times that just never took form on the…
The Yellow Zone
This week it seems like people are starting to settle in to our shelter-at-home lives. Scratch that. Rather, I think that our shelter-at-home lives may be starting to settle into us. We are creatures of…