Something I miss from the old days

Zach and I loved to draw. We were especially enamored with the 1992 Summer Olympics, and would send each other drawings of Shannon Miller on the balance beam, or Kerri Strug on the vault. We drew pictures of our dream houses (enormous mansions with spiral shrubberies between the windows), and sometimes we’d draw silly pictures of things we’d done or told each other about.

AI-Yi-Yi

Is there any way to avoid the rising waters of the cesspool of AI?

5 Things I do for funsies

While I have been zip lining and white water rafting and spelunking (never again), I much prefer to keep my feet on the ground and find ways to express my creativity through art, writing and making stuff!

If only we could un-invent

… All around the table the white haired men have gathered
Spilling their sons’ blood like table wine
Remember everything I told you
Everything in its own time

Katzenliebhaber

I’ve been a shameless cat lover all my life. How can you not love these mysterious and magical little creatures? Come in and meet the felines of my life.

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 […]

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 […]