What’s the Mission?
I picked up my new glasses last night, and I’ve been wearing them all day. And I’ll probably be wearing them daily for now.
You see, my insurance coverage allows for either glasses or contacts once a year, and my contacts cost more than the allotted amount, because I have low vision and astigmatism. So I [...]
Sort of. Wednesday was a birthday; my eldest daughter’s 10th. Today is the party. We’ve done all kinds of birthday parties over the past 10 years.
When she turned one, we were living in California, and invited all nearby family members for a birthday party. We honestly didn’t think they’d all show up! We were glad [...]
No, I did NOT do what that guy in the picture is doing! Almost two weeks ago I wrote about balancing everything I wanted to do during winter break. I’m going back to work tomorrow, so it’s time to take stock.
Cookie-baking: I wanted molasses cookies, because I had some delicious, buttery ones at an earlier [...]
My parents always told me that life isn’t fair (Hi, Mom!). I hated that. I don’t remember whether I ever said it out loud, but I always thought, “but you should at least try to make it fair!” And that was probably followed by sobbing and flinging myself across the bed.
Of course, as a parent [...]
I’m supposed to be doing National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). This means I have to post something every day for the month of November. I haven’t posted on this blog every day, but between this one and ParkroseGateway.com, I’ve had something up each day…until yesterday! Somehow I totally failed to post anything to either blog. [...]
Sustainable living isn’t all about recycling, bicycling, or any other kind of cycling. It isn’t just eating local and organic and Doing the Right Thing For the Environment.
There are other kinds of sustainability. We need to live in an economically sustainable way, for instance, rather than depending on other people’s consumerism for a living.
And we [...]
Today I decided to take a real Sabbath day. I didn’t go to church, because we don’t do that any more. I didn’t do anything! I didn’t ride my bike, or exercise on purpose in any way. I didn’t do any housework or volunteer work. Okay, I did manage to feed my family and water [...]
I tweeted about it yesterday.
10:08 AM: Anxiety and self-questioning FTL.
About 5:00 PM: NERVES.
Nothing I did made it better. I took my daily meds. I exercised. I completed a few menial tasks. I didn’t stop and do deep breathing exercises, because I didn’t remember that it might help (even though someone did remind me to BREATHE).
But [...]
