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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2009 in Life, Sustainability
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. [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2009 in Life
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. [...]
Tags: Life, sustainable living
Posted on June 28th, 2009 in Life
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 [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2009 in Life
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 [...]
Saturday night I took my nine-year-old daughter to a skating party at Gresham Skate World, the same rink we went to when I was a kid. I don’t skate often any more. The last time was probably when she was two. I’ve never been any kind of expert skater, but I’ve always been able to [...]
I really need to get more sleep, but I’m caught in a loop. This happens fairly often. It starts with me not getting enough sleep, either because I stayed up too late playing on the internets or because some kid was keeping me awake. Or because I was hacking and coughing all night. The next [...]
