Loading up on stuff (and nonsense). Also, shopping cart choreography.
Wednesday Missives
Day 3. Well, that didn’t take long.
Keri gets mad, gets fit, gets fed, and then gets funky.
Day 2. The excitement builds.
That might be slightly overstating it, but at least I'm keeping busy: Talking and texting to familyWorking on three different work contractsDoing an exercise class in the morning (just jumping around, TBH)Preparing healthy stuff to eat (alongside the junk food which...
Going viral
Day One. The confinement begins. I find myself oddly... calm. Is this the storied one that comes before the storm? Anxiety is weird. I am a worrier, with more than my share of scary stories pinging around in my head at a given moment. It's like a creepy carnival...
It’s the Holidays!
Well, it was the holidays - I am just a teeny bit late. Our holiday began with the ugliest cinnamon bread ever. I brought Special Ingredients and Arcane Baking Equipment from the U.S. with the express goal of making these pretty little cinnamon bread cakey things in...
Fiction: it’s a dead heat
You've seen my non-fiction reviews, now it's time for some fic-fic-fiction! Reading waaaaay too much this year: check out these heinous reading glasses! Probably from reading on screens. Anyway... High points Two books are in the running for my "Book of the Year So...
Visit to Tunis!
A heartily documented trip to some of the most beautiful sites in and around Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. Not to be missed!
Reading myself into something new
Five brief book reviews from among some non-fiction I’ve read in 2019. In honor of my dad’s great book reviews and of the bliss of reading yourself into new worlds.
It’s heed-taking time
You say you are from the Party of Lincoln. Prove it.
Notional zebras and the big red bus: stories from an evaluation
Kilimanjaro from the air Two months in Nairobi, though it seemed like more. It's bad form to say so... but driving around Nairobi never put anyone in a good mood. Mostly it puts you at a standstill. And how come I was always on the side of the car with the hot sun...