To Peach Fuzz! (New Year’s Musings)
The color of the year for 2024, according to Pantone, is Peach Fuzz. I’m not even sure who or what Pantone is (I know they have something to do with art and design…) or why they get to pick the color of the year, but they do. According to their website, Peach Fuzz was selected…
A Parrothead’s Playlist: Songs To Learn By Heart
It’s taken me a while to figure out exactly what I wanted to write in the wake of Jimmy Buffett’s death. When I first read about it on the morning of September 2 (he passed on September 1), I cried. I cried most of the day, well into the next, and the tears keeping hitting…
100+ Days Alcohol Free (#SoberCurious)
I meant to write this post sooner — on Day 100, in fact — but my week got away from me. Ah well. The same points will stand true on Day 107 (and counting). If you’re new to this journey for me, I suggest reading my Day 1 post and my One Month In post.…
The Problems with “Personal Style”
I want to start this with “Since the dawn of time…” because, hell, that’s what it feels like. But I don’t actually know if that’s true. I do know that it’s been true for me as an American woman living through the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and, now, 20s, so, let’s at least say “From…
Feb/March/April/May 2023 Reading Recaps
I said I was gonna do these every month, didn’t I? Whoops. Well, okay, so, maybe I fell a little behind on cataloging my reading exploits here on my blog. If you’d been following me on Instagram (hint, hint) you’d be caught up. But thanks to The Storygraph for keeping copious notes for me, I’m…
Sober Curious: One Month In
I use the app Habitica to help me with my to-do lists. I have habits I track (like how often I workout, meditate, or spend time outdoors). I have daily tasks to complete (like taking my vitamins or checking work emails). And I have singular to-dos (like single project submissions or things like “mail birthday…
Book Review: Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington
This post is going to serve double duty today — first, it will be a review (really, more a personal reaction than a traditional “review”) of the book Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol by Ruby Warrington. Second, it will…
Sober Curious: Day 1
I quit drinking today. I’m not an alcoholic, nor have I ever identified as an alcoholic. I am someone who has, in the past, enjoyed wine and beer and cocktails and liquor. In fact, I just got back from a week-long vacation where I sampled some delicious tiki drinks and mead, both of which I…
Poem: A Lesson Without Dying
As we approach the anniversary of the start of COVID-19 lockdowns, I (apparently, as I discovered this morning) have some “big feels” as they say about it. That’s where this poem came from: A Lesson Without Dying Remember homemade bread? Not toilet paper or gas prices.Not doctored spam videos.Not fear or anger or denial.Remember homemade bread.And…
A Very (Love Is In The) Air-y Television List
Okay, so, yes, I forced the bad rhyme to fit my trend. If you haven’t seen my Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas round-ups from previous years, check them out now. (I might end up revisiting and revising those lists… My thoughts on some of the episodes I included have changed.) But today is Valentine’s Day, which…
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