It might have taken me ten months to write about my honeymoon, but I am determined to keep my New Year’s tradition of blogging about the previous year’s highlights on January 1st. In other words, this will be an all nighter. But didn’t you only get four hours of sleep last night? you ask. Why … Continue reading Top 10 of 2022
My dad is a difficult person to shop for. (Just ask the set of golf clubs he never used that mysteriously disappeared.) Sometime around the 14th flannel shirt we gave him, he finally acquiesced to my mom’s and my plea to give us a Christmas list. This year the list included ski socks and a … Continue reading The Story of the Pork Roll (otherwise known as Sir Hamselot)
Today is the first real snow of the season here in Rhode Island, and as I’m hunkering down in my room, fully clad in fleece and sipping hot chocolate, I wanted to share a recent reflection I wrote. Last week I was asked to contribute a piece of writing for my church as part of … Continue reading Home for Christmas
I am aware that today is Christmas and I should be blogging about something that is Christmas related, but I started writing this entry a month ago and would like to finish. I think of it as a gift unto myself. Tis the season, after all! So, here’s what I started way back when, sort of an … Continue reading Food: A Love Story
So, I’m reading a book by A.J. Jacobs called The Know-It-All, in which the author describes his journey through reading the entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica, and I learned that today (January 6th) is the day they celebrate Christmas in Armenia. Jacobs said it as a passing comment, but I’m curious as to why it’s celebrated … Continue reading Happy Monday! (Especially in Armenia)
In honor of the changing years, it’s time to say goodbye to 2013. If you recall, 2013 was not predicted to be a great year for me, both by the “normal” zodiac and by the Chinese calendar. I was offered this advice: “Embrace neutral!” “Be patient and wait for 2014!” “You may have a … Continue reading Thirteen Moments (in pictures) from 2013
Ten Confessions 1) I keep hearing pitter-pattering above my head, and I’m hoping it’s squirrels on the roof and not a family of mice inside the ceiling (this is not a “confession” as much as a current event.) 2) I went to Barnes and Noble today with the intention of buying gifts for … Continue reading Ten Confessions
So I’m growing an elf. It was a Christmas gift from last year, and I put it in a “safe place” along with a couple other gifts (a fire-spitting wind-up nun and a chocolate covered rice krispie treat, which I sadly will admit I ate when I found the elf), meaning I didn’t find it for … Continue reading Collectible Magic Growing Things
During my freshman year of high school, we read Dandelion Wine. I don’t remember the book very well, but I remember in the beginning, Douglas, the 12-yr old protagonist, has this revelation that he is alive. It’s this liberating, illuminating experience, and it almost takes him off-guard. He doesn’t really understand this feeling of life. In the middle/end of the book, Douglas discovers the temporary … Continue reading This Christmas
They Call Me Fushilou 