Delights 7: practicing gratitude

This week has been hard. We’ve been snowed, rather, iced in to our home. I haven’t been anywhere since last Saturday night. The kids have been doing remote learning. A friend asked me how it was going and I responded with “There’s a reason I don’t homeschool.” Nothing against homeschooling, it’s just my particular mix […]

weekly photos vol 24

Albus featured quite prominently in pictures this week. He’s been quite cozy. Scampy has loved the snow. The sunset at the horse farm was even more stunning when one didn’t have to look through a dirty windshield but we’ll take what we can get. And this nice mug with Carl came home with me. We […]

Practice, practice, practice

Practice, practice, practice. But Kesh has been teaching me that there’s a right and wrong way to practice so this week, I’m starting to try taking some notes abou tmy work.

Delights 6: library

Our library is undergoing renovations. They’ve moved small sections of books to a community center a block over from the library and put the rest of the books in storage. You can still browse their catalog and put books on hold and eventually they will be back in their own building. Before Christmas, I dropped […]

weekly photos vol 23

The winter light is amazing in the house. It hits the disco ball without my moving it in the morning and then accents the kitchen when it’s time to cook dinner. Wild Dark Shore is as great as everyone is saying. We had the tiniest flurry this week which got everyone excited.

bad protest art and a new medium

When I was sitting quietly in my office, I got an idea. I’ve been mourning the news from Minneapolis and our shared loss of humanity in how we treat each other. What if my piece this week could (poorly) illustrate that? Yes, people dying is a loss of humanity. But enactors of violence are also […]

Delights 5: one shift leads to another

I’ve been moving some routines around in the kitchen. I’ve picked out Samin Nosrat as a teacher—in the most intuitive way. I love her cookbooks. They are beautiful and teach me so much and I enjoy them. My friend Sarah told me about her pandemic podcast Home Cooking and it is the light, chatty podcast […]