Musings and Memoir
I have some anxiety about death. Not my own, and not those of my dearest loved ones (that’s straightforward fear, not anxiety), but how to answer when it comes knocking at the door with news about somebody in my life. In the case of everyone significant in my life
Musings and Memoir
As summer officially begins in the Willamette Valley, it’s rainy and gray outside my office window. It’s supposed to stay rainy all weekend. Instead of being out in the yard, letting the puppy chase us around and grilling steelhead, we are in the house revisiting our cozy, wintry
Parenting
School has been out for a week and we’re descending into YouTube Hell. There’s no day camp this week, and my husband and I are mostly working, so the kiddo gets left to his own devices quite a bit. “Devices” is literal. I can’t tell which is
Travel
Last summer, I was turned down for a job that would have let me travel several times a year. The job was with a former employer, where I knew most of the people and knew basically what to expect from the line of work, which was producing corporate events. I
Musings and Memoir
If I responded to every email asking for my feedback on something, I’d start to think the universe revolved around me. My opinion would be highly sought after. Companies would be at the edge of their seats, waiting for me to rate their product or service so they could
Parenting
\My son doesn’t get enough sleep, and it’s probably our fault. It drives me up the wall to be trying to relax in the living room at a decidedly late hour and hear the intermittent snap of Legos being put together, or the hollow sound of his closet
Parenting
There has been a slow shift in our household, and the child that was once a nearly uncontrollable tornado of impulses has become a rangy kid. A kid who is almost at the end of his kindergarten year, who still clings to me when given the chance but also runs
Travel
Before this year’s trip to New York, I eagerly circled many food destinations in my guidebook; but as typically happens, I resized my ambitions after arriving and feeling overwhelmed by options. During my four days there, I mainly played it by ear and stuck to restaurants that didn’t
Travel
A 2025 New York Trip
Parenting
In case it isn’t clear from, well, everything I write about, I am a person with a lot on her mind. I can scarcely do a task without thinking about the next one, or about what I’d rather be doing instead. In fact, those things I’d rather
Musings and Memoir
I was lucky to get in a catnap before making dinner tonight. I’d just finished a busy day at work, getting ready for a deadline, and was still waiting for word of an after-hours software deployment that I had to do a quality check on. I put my phone
Mental Health
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 There was no light-bulb moment when I realized that casual relationships were not for me. Some of those relationships lingered, and were there for me in moments of need when I’d broken up with yet another boyfriend. As I’ve written this series