Briefly | I have been in the worst sort of funk all week. I can’t quite pin down the cause, but I think it’s a combination of delayed stress from all the personal crap that’s been going on this month and dismay at our current political climate. The February funk is real and awful and I can’t wait [...]
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Briefly | This week was all about keeping my head above water. This weekend has been all about regrouping and resetting, hoping to get back into the groove I was so excited about early in 2016. The boyfriend was in Milwaukee all week, helping his mom and making funeral arrangements for his dad. My dad and [...]
Hey friends. It’s been quite a week, so much so that I don’t really have much of anything to say to fill in my normal Sunday post. It probably makes sense to start with the low of the week: the boyfriend’s father passed away late Saturday morning after about a week in the hospital. He’d [...]
Briefly | It’s been an unexpected couple of weeks! The last week of January, I was out of town for a few days at the Minnesota Newspaper Association Convention. While in the Twin Cities, I started to have some car troubles that, unfortunately, seem to have gotten worse. I’m dropping it off for a diagnosis tomorrow, [...]
Time and Place | Around 8:30 a.m., on my couch. I’m not really feeling the computer this morning, so I think this will be a quick post. Reading | Since last Sunday, I finished Read Bottom Up by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham (a modern love story told through e-mails and text messages) and Presence by Amy Cuddy (nonfiction [...]
Briefly | Minnesota, and most of the upper Midwest, is in the middle of a cold snap. It sunk below zero Friday night, and isn’t expected to get back above zero until Tuesday morning. We’ve got the heat turned up, blankets unpacked, and are wallowing as best we can to avoid truly horrific wind chills. [...]
Time and Place | 8:45 a.m. at my newly-organized and decluttered desk. I spent my extra weekend day deep cleaning my office and I am so, so happy with the results. Reading | My first book of 2016 is The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau. The book is all about bringing meaning into your life by pursuing [...]
Time and Place | Around 8:30 a.m., at home, on my own couch! As I have mentioned (too often, I’m sure), I’ve been away from home for the last three weekends. That’s just too much for me, and I seem to have paid the price this week — daily fatigue headaches, insomnia, and general exhaustion. A [...]
Time and Place | About 9 a.m., on my sister’s couch in the Twin Cities. Eating and Drinking | I went out to dinner to a new-to-me restaurant, Fireside Foundry, last night. They had the most amazing onion rings — I wish I’d taken a picture, they were so impressive. Reading | Since my last post, reading has been [...]
Time and Place | About 8:30 a.m., in the quiet living room at my parents house. This is going to be the setting for the next three weekends — I didn’t plan my December travel well and will be on the road a lot. Eating and Drinking | Just so tea so far this morning, I’m [...]
