I find that as I age, some of our favorite family members are those who aren't even related, to begin with. I mean we have lots of relatives we love that are blood, but my children have called some of my friends "auntie" and "uncle" for years and none of those people have blood running… Continue reading Some of our Favorite Members Aren’t Family To Begin With
July was full of Universal things, lots of crazy happenings, and just things I can't explain, honestly. If you had foretold me that my July would have involved my bird going missing and one of the members of The Breakfast Club emailing me, I would have said YOU ARE SHITTING ME. I bought this book… Continue reading Thirty-One Universal Things
Yesterday afternoon, our bird Joy flew out of our patio door window. It was a fluke really. My husband was cleaning up the patio, I had her out of the cage watching a video and talking to her and I walked into the kitchen to get something and she followed me. I am her "person".… Continue reading The Year that Joy Went Out the Window
I have a secret hoarding issue. I keep old calendars. I have kept a day planner on my kitchen counter (and now one for blogging on my desk) for so many years, I don't even remember when I started. But I end up keeping the planners long after they have been used and… Continue reading Keeping Calendars is My Hoarding Cats
I wrote this post two days after our hamster died. I preface this post with that statement because I don't want you all to worry about me. Sobbing about a dead hamster two weeks later. Not that there is anything wrong with that but I needed to write this out at that moment and I… Continue reading On Painting Bedrooms and Dying Hamsters
For those who live outside of the Midwest, you may be unfamiliar with Door County, Wisconsin. It is a lovely place in the upper Midwest that is surrounded by water; on one side is Green Bay (yes, it's an actual body of water and not just a football team), and the other side is Lake… Continue reading Door Bleepin’ County
