There are several topics I should be covering in this post, updates to keep you in the loop of Tracy’s and my lives, and Banjo’s, too. Updates You’re Not Getting How Tracy’s building the fence with concrete and posts and pickets, and how I’m keeping the neighbors satisfied with more tomatoes than two blocks of […]
Bridging the Cheese Curd Divide
A partnership post with famed Midwest Mark!
An Imperfect Life Is Made from a String of Perfect Moments
Last week’s blog entry about regrets is valid. As is the pretty-much opposite take, that being aware of tiny moments of perfection allows you to make a necklace, of pearls and gems and found shark teeth and tiny shells, that makes life as beautiful as I am wistful. Problem is that it’s hard to remember […]
Maybe If I Consider the Maybes
A year ago, we were still in the trailer, in the campground in Wisconsin, looking for a house to buy. Maybe, if we’d spent less time house-hunting, feeling like the summer was a ticking time bomb, and more time finding a sustainable apartment (or rental house) that wouldn’t suck our souls from our very throats […]
A Year off the Road, a Month of Reckoning, Part 1
I have a new plan for this blog. Yes, no surprise there. But, hear me out. Because I’ve been stymied by that manuscript I have in the works, and because these entries here continue to be easy to write, I’ve decided to write the manuscript here. Terrible idea, I know. AI will steal my words. […]
Guess the Events in My Triathalon
I was greeted downstairs this morning by the sight of Tracy doing the dishes without a shirt on. Walking around the house half naked is my job, so I asked what on Earth compelled him to steal my mojo. It was only 9 am, but turns out he’d already ridden his bike all the way […]
Lessons from Two Nights of Phish
There’s a group of four guys, about my age (50s), about my background (east coast, prep-school, real and quasi smart-ass/intellectuals), who spent their high school years in about the same way I did (when not seeing Grateful Dead shows, then in someone’s parents’ basement playing in or listening to a jam band). Those four guys […]
Making Connections in a New Town
My assumptions about making new friends and how that’s actually working out.
Come for a Visit in Madison!
Get a snapshot of the near-east of Madison, Wisconsin, presented by someone who doesn’t know what she’s talking about (me, who’s lived here for four months).
Catching up with Odds and Ends: Fashion and Fish
I’ve got several draft posts in my folder that I’ve been working on, but they feel more like road blocks to writing than the healthy writing exercises I want them to be. I want to write more interesting posts with more mindful topics: mindful to you in that they’re not so run of the mill, […]
