As is tradition when entering a new year or approaching a birthday, I become very... META.Thinking introspectively and asking big questions about life, the universe, and everything ( Read more... )

Today I was driving home from work. Autumn and Lorelei are staying with Grandma tonight since I work tomorrow (Saturday). I planned on going to the YMCA but since it was beautiful outside I thought I should mow the lawn... One of the last mows of the season. I've recently made the decision to limit drinking... It's a trap as admiral Akbar would say ( Read more... )

People are neither noble or evil. That's what was said in A Series of Unfortunate Events, which I just watched with Autumn and Lorelei on Netflix ( Read more... )

This weekend Jordan's friend from high school, Adam, stayed with us. Adam is going to Palmer school of Chiropractic in Iowa, but every other weekend he comes back to Rockford to see his daughter, Parker. She's 4. Sometimes Adam brings Parker back to Iowa with him, but sometimes Adam and Parker stay with us for the weekend.

It's always fun when Adam ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I stop and think about the huge number of people who have come in and out of my life.
People I worked with... like Katie Farenhugh. And Jake Janusevic. They're dead now. Jake took his own life and a car accident took Katie's. Laura Olderbach. She's a free spirit, a little crazy, a little like me. I watched her become a GM at Culver's, ( Read more... )

It's a new year.

I'm going to be 28 in a few short months.

Crossing the threshold into a new year always makes me painfully aware of the passing of time. How transient we are. How small. But how important each little second is! How predisposed we are to become distracted by the future, the past, our dreams... Meanwhile the moments that compose our ( Read more... )

18 years ago tomorrow, my life began. What now? Does anything change? Does anything stay the same? Where do I live? Do I get my own apartment? Can I afford it? Should I live with my great grandma? Should I move to Minnesota someday, where I went for unassigned territory? Will I be able to regular pioneer without burning out? Is it a ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I took my friend Tracy to her guitar lesson. I've never been a musically talented person, as evidenced by the way I once massacred the strings of an acoustic guitar given to my family (even though non of us play). I thought I was 'tuning' it ( Read more... )

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RIGHT BRAIN: i had time on my hands. oh no... not that there weren't a hundred things Left was biting at the reigns to get done. but i was in my car, not scheduled to be home for several hours. what was i to do? where was i to go? perpetually broke as i am, the main criteria was: free. AHA! the library. i took a deep breath as i crossed the ( Read more... )