The lost holidays
[actual autocorrect I got today] Happy Easter, all! Happy Passover! Or, in my case, Happy Sunday! Growing up, holidays were a big thing around my house. My mom decorates for seven holidays a year, I believe, and we had family traditions affiliated with so many of those days. Cards and chocolate and little presents […]
Game planning (Thanksgiving edition)
This morning, my Facebook feed blew up with talk of “the big game,” the annual Montana-Montana State football game (which is, somewhat foolishly to my way of thinking, called “The Brawl of the Wild”). While alums of both schools taunted one another, I was doing my own kind of game planning: the kind that involves […]
It’s mostly the same, but I feel different
I’m back in my old town for a couple of nights, the place where I lived off and on (but mostly on) for a decade prior to moving to Texas. I was looking forward to seeing some friends here, wandering around, eating at a few favorite places. I needed to get some repair work done […]
Goodbye November, Hello December!
Goodbye to this year’s National Blog Posting Month. I actually managed to post something on every day in November! I can’t say that all of the posts were beautiful, or super thoughtful – but it was a good exercise. It got me writing and thinking, feeling inspired and getting a lot quicker at getting the […]
Thinking about thankfulness
For the past 24 days, I’ve managed to post something every day – something I read, something I saw and liked, something that got me thinking. Something. It hasn’t always been easy; I abandoned my calendar with ideas somewhere along the way. But today, when the theme seems so obvious, is probably one of the […]
Here comes the holiday season?
I knew a girl in high school who would put up her Christmas tree on the day after Halloween. November, she declared, was the official start of the holiday season. Every year, what I’ve started referring to as “the holiday creep” seems to extend just a little further. Once the back to school section is […]
T-giving countdown: movie time
Somehow, we’re one week from Thanksgiving. Isn’t time just so weird and irregular-seeming? I’m still coming to grips with the fact that we’re in November, and now the holiday season is just around the corner. To get in the mood (and because I stayed home sick from work today), I kicked things off with the […]
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a 
