Cut Off My Nose and Call Me an Alien

I started writing this post a few months ago but stopped because I was finding myself getting rather worked up about the topic. I didn’t want to post something that came across too judgmental. Now that I’ve had some time to mull it over some more, I think I’m ready to share: I’ve been thinking […]

Another Year Over, A New One Just Begun…

I figured I’d squeeze out one more post as 2023 draws to a close. As I reflect on the year, I wonder, how do people who don’t keep journals or detailed calendars remember everything that happened? As I flip through my bullet journal and my morning pages journal, I’m a bit surprised at how much […]

Radio-Silent Walks

Lately, I’ve taken a radical approach to my daily constitutional. Ok, it’s not so radical, as it’s essentially what people have done for thousands of years before the advent of portable music devices, but hear me out. For years, I saw a walk as an opportunity to pop in my earbuds and listen to a […]

10 Years Later

It’s been 10 years since I started blogging here on WordPress! I don’t have time to write a reflective post about the journey right now, as it’s finally a sunny evening, and I need to do some garden maintenance, but I wanted to make a quick post to mark the occasion. I’m never sure how […]

Sunday Writing Prompt

This is an interesting thing to ponder, considering that I’ve never really felt like I had much cultural heritage to speak of. The ancestors I knew of were either Scottish or English, some of whom were American colonists. 23&Me says I also have some French, German, “broadly northern European,” and a whopping 0.9% Egyptian DNA, […]

Hiding Under A Bushel

One of the Wee Sing Bible Songs we used to listen to on repeat as kids was “This Little Light of Mine,” and lately, I’ve been thinking about the refrain “Hide it under a bushel – NO! I’m gonna let it shine!” I feel like I’ve been hiding my light under a bushel for a […]

Sustainability

I’ve been meaning to write about a part of my life that I’ve hardly touched upon on this blog: My passion for nature, the environment, and trying to live sustainably and mindfully. To live simply, that others may simply live, as the saying goes. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized that small actions […]

Analyze This

Ever since my first psychology class in high school, I’ve been low-key obsessed with wondering why people are the way they are and why they act the way they do. Myself included. I wanted to see a therapist to probe the depths of my psyche way back then, but I was afraid to ask my […]

How ‘Fleischman is in trouble’ saved me from nostalgic disaster

I’ve always been a nostalgic person. Even when I was in elementary school, I would look back fondly on my pre-school days and think of how great my life had been when I could wake up, have breakfast with Gram, watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and spend the rest of the day playing with […]

You say woke like it’s a bad thing. . .

It’s so funny to me how some people use “woke” as an insult. Merriam Webster defines it as: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice). If you want to call me woke, well, thanks! I’d like to think I am, but I also know […]