I received an Ideal Inspiration Blogger nomination from Vic’s Online Blog. Thank you, Victoria! This is a non-official award that recognizes other blogs and brings our blogging community a little closer together. […]
MEGA BOOK CATCH-UP POST – Part 1
Hi friends! It’s been…oh dear…over a year since I last posted about the books I was reading. Here’s a summary post of all the books I’ve read in the past year (past […]
Happy 2021

Happy New Year all! I hope you had a cozy winter break. Ours was good. I definitely felt sad at points – we ended up not going on our camping trip (which […]
Bloom Where You’re Planted
Tonight I took my last creative nonfiction class through the Indiana Writers Center (through Zoom, of course). It was a wonderful, warm group. We shared our vulnerability and sadness through our stories. […]
It’s the Most Wonderful Time…of the Year (???)

Hello friends. Happy Sunday. Five days left before Christmas, and eleven more days in this garbage year. But at least we’ve approved a second vaccine in the US! I feel like the […]
An Update from the Grinch
Less than a month left in this terrible year and two weeks until Christmas. Two weeks?! I already want to fast-forward during the holidays when it’s a normal year. I suppose the […]
Yoga For When You Can Barely Stand Up Straight
On Monday, I pulled my back. You’d think that as someone who’s had back problems since I was a teenager, I’d have figured out how to protect my lower back by my […]
How It’s Been
Good morning friends! I hope you are keeping safe. The last two weeks have been, um, “interesting” here in the US. Election Night, November 3 – No matter how many times we […]
Halloween 2020

Happy belated Halloween! I hope you all had a cozy, spooky day. Thankfully the weather was warmer here than last Halloween, when we had snow flurries. We have been having sunshine after […]
Small Adventures
I’ve been feeling hopeful lately. Maybe it’s because I finally broke down and started reading FiveThirtyEight again after swearing off polls forever in 2016. Maybe it’s the warmth and coziness of the […]