I once had a quick text conversation that stays with me; it was about types of visual art. The friend I was texting with puts abstract art on her walls that I don’t like, myself, but it’s not my house, so who cares? She also has begun painting with watercolors, as have two other newly […]
Month: August 2026
Chapter 1a: March 2020, Central Virginia
[I’ve previously published the introduction here in this blog.] Have you ever done the exact opposite of what was good for you? I don’t mean something small, like staying up all night by yourself (as a grown woman) watching the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice while you cut off your dreadlocks. I’m talking something big. A […]
50 Ways I Am a Badass
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 […]
