Category: Home (slice)
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Part 2: Holy crap. We bought a cabin.
Picking up where I left off: By September, we were getting pretty frustrated with the whole “let’s buy a vacation cabin” experience. When we began looking in June, we had visions of spending late summer all settled in the country. After all, our rowhouse in Old Town was literally the first house we looked at…
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Part 1: Holy crap. We bought a cabin.
Hello from the other side, my fellow vaxxed and inoculated pandemic people. We made it. I mean, we’ve still got a ways to go to make sure we reach herd immunity, but there seems to be a very dim light at the end of this long, crap tunnel of death and illness and isolation. We…
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Reality TV Time: Escape to the Country
If you are a reasonably cautious person, you are now well into your fifth month of quarantine/self-isolation/stay-at-home/work-from-home-ness. Congratulations on caring not only for your own health, but for your community as a whole. I’m sure, like most of us, you are hankering for a getaway. Maybe a trip abroad (HA!). Or, slightly more realistically, someplace…
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Welcome to the Annex
In the summertime, when we were kids, our mom would kick us out of the trailer and lock the door. She’d leave a big red Igloo water cooler of Kool Aid and a sleeve of saltines on the porch and would tell us to basically entertain ourselves all day – “you kids go play.” I’ve…
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Coronavirus Couture: In Defense of Quarantine Jeans
Hello fellow hunker downers, shut-ins, and just plain ol’ normal, work-from-home freelancers. I have a question: Why are we mad at pants? And by “we,” I mean collectively as a people and as a country. Is there some conspiracy theory floating around that pants are what caused the coronavirus? I’m not sure whether to believe…
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The Great Coronavirus Novel: Prologue
(blows dust off blog landing page) This seems like a good time to restart this thing, right? I mean, after all, we’re all supposed to come out of this quarantine business with having acquired a lucrative side hustle, learned a new foreign language and musical instrument, perfected the art of sourdough bread baking and putting…
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Ode to El Paso
I’m from El Paso. It’s my hometown. Yes, I’ve lived in other parts of Texas, including Austin, and Dallas. I have family in San Antonio, and in Oregon, in Louisiana and other places, I’m sure, but we all came from El Paso. My mother’s dad exited the military while he was stationed at Fort Bliss…
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When Bees Don’t ‘Do It’ – Summer Gardening
My client’s big event wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, which means….. I actually have two big, yearly client events that I provide content support for, one of which is usually at the end of May or June. And after it wraps up, things slow waaaayyyy down. I mean, I have a few recurring…
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A List of Distractions: Things to Buy, Eat, Watch and Listen To
We have a friend who is a bit under the weather and is stuck in a hospital bed for the foreseeable future. Which just totally sucks. I mean, on the one hand: laying around just watching endless episodes of “Fixer Upper” is totally my jam. But on the other hand: there’s only like, five seasons…
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A Little Summer/Fall Reading List
This summer, instead of working on my tan or my fitness or my blog producing skills (hello! Zing!), I’ve been reading. Like, not just US Weekly but actual books. I’ve turned to actual books, in part, because I cancelled my subscription to US Weekly after about seven too many glowing cover stories on a certain…