#117 When Pluto was a planet
April is turning out to be a strange month. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what felt off – but I’m starting to think it’s Pluto. I’m old enough to remember when Pluto was a planet. Chances are, if...
View Article#118 AC bliss
The weather is about to change…I can feel it coming. I have this feeling that we’re going to have a short spring and summer is going to hit us hard. I’ve never been a fan of humidity. I think it...
View Article#120 Cosmic Nutrition
My knee is still giving me problems. Not major problems – but problems in a sense that it’s not functioning at 100% yet. And that’s a little scary. It wasn’t the greatest moment of my life when I...
View Article#123 The Couch – part 2
Well, it’s official. I have grown up furniture. At least one piece. I have an honest to goodness couch in my apartment, and it feels oh so good. It’s amazing how one piece can help you visualize the...
View Article#124 Personal Identity
I’m kind of surprised at how much creativity seems to be blossoming all around me. I don’t know that I was fully aware of how much creative energy would go into building a home. And of course when I...
View Article#125 More girl than badass…
Home Depot has replaced REI as my favorite store of choice this last month. I can spend hours wandering through the aisles staring at nuts and bolts, power saws and brooms, lighting fixtures and...
View Article#126 Exploring the burbs
It’s official! I found it! A giant Japanese supermarket in the ‘burbs! Mitsuwa is a large chain Japanese supermarket in Southern California, and guess what? They have one here in a northern suburb....
View Article#127 Everest
Two years ago around this time I found myself in Nepal. It was the first trip I took abroad that changed the way I saw the world. Sure, I had traveled beyond the borders of the US before – but each...
View Article#128 And Then a Rainbow
It’s official. My grandmother turned 100 today. How fitting that it was Mother’s Day. Those of us who could make it flew to North Carolina this weekend to have a family dinner with her. I have to...
View Article#129 How can it get any better than this?
I have this new book I started reading. In all honesty I’m sort of in the middle of three books, an audio guide and an audio book. All five seem to be tied together by a similar stream of...
View Article#130 Karaoke in the city Round 2
I went out to dinner at Rocco’s on Lincoln last Friday with a group of friends and as usual it was really nice to catch up with everyone. Mason went on another dress buying bender, Fork was excited...
View Article#131 The Middle
I have to admit that being in the middle has its advantages over being on strictly the west or east coast. First and foremost – it’s half the distance to everything, so people are more willing to make...
View Article#132 Together, but apart, but together…
Last week I hit the open road once again, but this time I was headed south – then east. I was ultimately headed to North Carolina to go to my grandmother’s birthday party, but was going via Nashville....
View Article#133 Heads Carolina, Tails California
I miscalculated how far away Raleigh was from both Chicago and Nashville. For whatever reason I thought it was about 5-8 hours away from both cities. Oops. America is really big – and even though I’m...
View Article#134 I’m diggin’ it.
I had a lot of firsts today. The first one was a doozy…and is a little embarrassing to admit to – but as I’ve said before, in the interest of full disclosure – I shall begin. I live in an area of town...
View Article#135 Everest – part 2
You can read Part 1 here… For part 2 of my Everest adventure, I found an email I sent my mom – and honestly I couldn’t have re-created what I saw any better – so welcome to my Day 3 of Nepal as I saw...
View Article#136 Deck Wars
Sounds like a concept for a new show on Home and Garden TV doesn’t it? It started about a week and a half ago – my neighbor across the hall (I’ll name her 2B) called the landlord about my door on the...
View Article#137 Ard Bia
I went over to Mason’s place on Wednesday for some German eats. I could have eaten a meal of Linzer cookies – but since she is a super healthy foodie – I had a whole table of German treats to choose...
View Article#138 A dream without a goal is just a wish.
When I was in Raleigh 2 weeks ago I got to see Diva dance for the first time…EVER. And I got to go to one of Trouble’s baseball games. They don’t read this religiously – which is good since I don’t...
View Article#139 The older good-looking boy next door
When I was a kid there was this show on the Disney Channel called “The Torkelsons.” It was short-lived, and I don’t remember too much of it – but I remember that it was a coming of age show like almost...
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