I’ve been meaning to blog about this…
When it comes to PDA (public displays of affection, not personal digital assistants), I’m probably on the reserved side of things. But it’s different in one’s own home, and I think it’s healthy for kids to see their parents hugging and kissing as part of the normal order of […]

spent several hours at the church cleaning out old stuff and organizing the admin office with a woman who I’ve decided is the [name redacted] of Tiny Church. Such a hoot… And the psychic lift that comes with getting rid of junk and making things tidy is HUGE.
18 things on the to-do list today. Sadly, […]

This weekend I’ve been remembering the inauguration. The screwed-up-ness of the last year does not diminish the joy of that event for me.
I love Maira Kalman’s stuff; here are her artistic reflections on that happy day. She captures it well.
My favorite image:

And here is what I said about it at the time.
According to […]

I facebooked today, “Our life is crazy and getting crazier by the minute” and my brother-in-law responded sagely, “That happens with tile.”
The craziness is not all tile-related, but yes, the tile is ground zero of Teh Crazy.
The family room looks very nice, though there’s a place where they apparently didn’t mix the grout quite right […]

Home projects we are undertaking in the next week or more:
Family Room
They guys will be here tomorrow to put tile in the family room, which will mean bye-bye to the worn out carpet and the huge sheet of plastic intended to protect one corner of the carpet from our cat with the ailing kidneys and […]

Many years ago someone asked me what my aspirations were for my writing and I responded “to write and be read.” Those aspirations have become reality and I feel very fortunate to have been given opportunities to write a little—for online journals, print publications, essays for books, and so forth. I’m even lucky enough to […]

…Which was not so much this time. The last weekend there we had highs in the 50s. But we still had fun.
We drove overnight both ways. It’s a brutal way to go, but then again I don’t think being in the car two days is any better—it’s about 16 hours of travel including stops. R […]