Happy Passover
The Jewish holiday of Passover began last night. Though I can appreciate the spiritual, redemptive messages of the holiday, it isn’t one of my favorites. I love matzo ball soup […]
Homemade weed killer
After such a wet winter, our backyard was an even denser weed jungle than usual this year. We don’t use weed killers that would hurt our beloved dog Paisley or […]
Keeping my healthcare
Today I am deeply grateful that the Affordable Care Act (also called ObamaCare) was saved. This means lives were saved today — including my own. This is deeply personal to me. […]
Breakfast smoothies are back
During the colder months, we tend to shy away from breakfast smoothies because we’re simply too cold. Now that it’s getting warmer, we decided to reinstate our morning tradition. We […]
Satisfying day
I didn’t accomplish everything I’d hoped, but today was a very satisfying day nonetheless. I gave myself my B12 injection early in the morning and then got Mama to her […]
Stirring civic engagement
This morning Mama and I got up very early and tried to attend a local Town Hall meeting with our federal and state representatives. About 2,000 of our neighbors had […]
Day of recovery
It was a great day in that we did nothing. No appointments or errands, no calls, no Facebook, nothing. It was just what I needed and it was awesome in […]
Love of Paisley
About two months ago, we adopted the newest (and very adorable) member of our family, Paisley. Our connection with this sweet girl was immediate and we fell madly in love. She’s our […]
My first standing shower in a year
For the first time in about a year I took a shower standing up today. This may not seem like a very big deal to plenty of people, but this […]
Our lovely new face masks
Today we were thrilled to receive a package from an Etsy store we love in Canada: Our beautiful new face masks! I’d ordered one of these pleated, adjustable beauties late last […]
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