This post doesn’t deserve a title
Oh right, now I remember why doing NaBloPoMo is so challenging! It’s every single day for a month! You’d think it’d be in the name or something as a reminder.
Everyday Life
It’s the first day of November! You know what that means!
It’s a month of exciting opportunities! Time to loosen up the typing knuckles, talk to our imaginary friends, and let the razors pout in the corner.
Time has no meaning
And other things I’ve been telling myself Today’s the eleventy billionth day of March 2020 and you can’t convince me otherwise. The terrifying start of this never ending pandemic was yesterday and yet as distant as the discovery of fire. …
Return to familiar
I heard someone recently refer to this time as “returning to familiar” instead of “returning to normal.” I heartily agree not only because these times are anything but normal, but also because I’ve learned through hard-earned experience that normal is a candy-coated illusion.
A love story by the calendar
We interrupt this unplanned hiatus for a love story. Everyone appreciates a good love story, right? Fall 1992. I was practicing in the music building basement, because of course that’s where the practice rooms lived. We’d stumble up the stairs …
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
I first learned about the rabbit rabbit rabbit superstition at summer camp as a young teen. If it’s the first thing you say on the first day of a new month you’ll have good luck all month long. I’ve not …
Gamify your self-care
Hey. You. How’re you doing? Uh-huh. Sure. How are you really doing? Have you been taking care of yourself? How have you been taking care of yourself? Maybe pause a moment or two here for a couple of slow deep …
Open mouth, insert stocking
I broke one of my most deeply held personal commandments. What, that of never posting two days in a row? Because Jen, dude, we all thought you were internet dead and here you are slapping up another post while the …
All the things chaotic
You know it’s really been an out of control couple of months when “Uh, I almost burned the house down last night while you and dad slept” isn’t even in the top 100 WTF moments. Everything is fine, the house …
Intermission
When I chose harmony as my 2020 Word of the Year, I had plans of building upon the positive momentum of 2019. Last year was a pretty good one for me and my family, and while I know it was …