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How I Spent My Summer Vacation My summer was split between Being Pregnant But Not Letting People Know (too soon), and then Being Pregnant And Having People Know. At work, sometimes I hauled boxes of yoga mats around, or taught kiddos lessons in a community garden. When I didn't teach in the garden, I prepped… Continue reading Three Months of Life
I'm a little more than halfway through Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, and this week I got to a part where the narrator described the month of May 1812 in Yorkshire: The early part of that May, as we have seen, was fine, the middle was wet; but in the last week, at change of moon,… Continue reading Symmetry
I feel lucky every day I go in to work my full-time job, because I am on different teams with the best people, working toward goals to make our community better. Teamwork, collaboration, and community are on my mind a lot these days, and I find myself appreciating group efforts in my recreation time as… Continue reading … Makes the dream work.
The two words I associate with the Christmas season of this pandemic year are:Simple & Community I have long disdained the commercialism and shopping associated with American Christmas, so there's something potent to me about in person-shopping and crowded malls spreading a deadly virus this year. Avoid the mall? No. Problem.This isn't the first year… Continue reading A Simple Solstice
I feel lucky to live where I do, and try to take advantage of as much going on in my community as I can. The Collingwood Book Festival is INCREDIBLE, get to it every year if you can. A group in my neighborhood called Booze & Haiku meets to write suburban angst haiku! The Rosenbach… Continue reading Literary/Community