To Square a Circle

Reading at the laundromat (RIP dryer) (This post is about my reading year, a topic that sounds boring to me before I even start, and the ne...

1. You remember my New Year's resolve to cut down on single-use plastic ( see the end of this post )? I'd give myself a B- on this s...

(written the week of May 31st) Our church, like most, has not been meeting during the pandemic shutdown. Fortunately, we have a decades-long...

So much has happened in the last two weeks. So much. But that's not why I'm typing today. Today I just want to say that I am so dis...

This got long. Save it for when you have time. 1. The governor of Montana has started a three-phase plan for reopening the state, starting...

I was in a zoom meeting where the topic of the different phases of home quarantine came up, with amusement. The first week was the week of f...

I decided a couple of days ago that I needed to stop being online so much, so I spent the last couple of days being offline. Mostly. But tha...

After a quick scroll through bookstagram, it's obvious that almost universally, book lovers are having trouble reading anything but comf...

I'm fine. I don't want to make this sound like I need sympathy. I have it so much easier than most-- no five-year-olds are following...

The shelter-in-place order in Montana allows for "essential" activities like grocery shopping, trips to the pharmacy or post offic...

When I was in third grade, I had a favorite dress. It was cotton and long sleeved, with patch pockets, and it zipped up the front, all the w...

My cat with a candle. Best I could do in full daylight. The Prime Minister of India asked all Indians to turn out their electric lights...

Around here, there are two main types of winter weather: overcast with highs in the 30s, or sunny and clear but bitter cold. It's not th...

I have not been a deny-er about this virus, from the very first moment we heard it was coming to the US. But I will admit to not getting it ...

Presumably, we're all at home, and looking for things to do. (And if you have an essential job, and you're not at home, thank you. I...

I was born in 1961, right at the end of the era where the entire culture was pretty much in agreement that you should conform to what was ex...

1. We had plenty of time to talk about pandemics last week as we self-quarantined here in our house on our Not-a-Vacation. Here is my Not-an...