Today marks the twenty-second anniversary of the day my radiologist called and told my parents, “We got it all.” I wasn’t home at the time, and this pre-dated cell phones, so the way my parents chose to tell me the news was by banging pots and pans as I drove up the driveway. I got […]
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This Is Not A Blog About Baking…
…But sometimes it’s fun to share parts of my life that are not about writing, productivity, or general life perspective. This past Saturday, I made this: The recipe is from the Zingerman’s Bakery cookbook, humorously called the “Hunka Burnin’ Love” cake. It looks rather unadorned (I’m a good baker, but decorating is definitely not in […]
5 Helpful Habits for the New Year
I didn’t make any resolutions for 2021. I tend to take resolutions too seriously, and anything that obligates seriousness is not what I need in my life right now. I also didn’t make any new personal commandments, because the ones I wrote for 2020 still feel prescient. But I did spend all of my winter […]
“It Is Time For Us All to Decide Who We Are.”
“It is time for us all to decide who we are.” This line, from the musical Les Miserablés, has been ringing in my head since the images from the Capitol insurrection yesterday. In case you missed it (who could?) Trump supporters took Trump’s call to action and turned it into a physical threat against our […]
Winter Word: Release
Happy New Year, everyone! I know I said yesterday that the new year was meaningless, but it still feels surprisingly good to have a fresh start, and I’ve decided to take the opportunity to set a word as my intention. Not for the whole year, because who the heck knows what’s going to happen this […]
Reflecting on 2020: Don’t Bother
Many writers have been attempting to sum up 2020, wrapping it in commentary of either sadness for our nation’s health and soul, or gratitude for our survival in the hardest of times. But I’m not going to try to do that. I usually spend the last week of December reflecting on the previous year and […]