Journal

Olympic National Park, Washington State, 2006. I’ve been fighting hiking withdrawals since Christmas. I love hiking, and there isn’t much of it around here. Sure, you can hike in the swamp, and I do – but it’s not the same. The best hikes are found where the topography actually changes, and it doesn’t really do [...]

My sick baby is better and is going back to school today. Sometime during his cold he was begging for a pacifier but I couldn’t find any. Then I remembered this costume pacifier we’d bought a few years ago. He didn’t mind the substitute at all. Then I got the following song stuck in my [...]

Abandoned factory on the St. Lawrence River, Montreal Canada, August 2011. When I took on the Nablopomo challenge I forgot that I had houseguests this week and would want to catch up, and didn’t know that my 2-year-old son would get sick (with a fever and bloody nose). I won’t use it as an excuse [...]

This is slutty twig. She has nothing to do with Nablopomo. During the summer of 2010, when my kids were only one 1 and 2 years old, I decided to attempt Nablopomo (National Blog Posting Month) to get back into the writing habit. It worked. I successfully completed the challenge, writing every day for 31 [...]