It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, and WOW, life has changed a lot since the last time I wrote anything here. The last time I actually wrote something and published a post, it was early January. The pandemic was at it’s height, members of congress were the only people who could get vaccinated …
A much younger version of myself drew a lot. Every day, probably. I carried a sketchbook with me everywhere. I took drawing classes, I went to design school. When I was 20, I left design school and stopped drawing pretty abruptly. I stopped drawing for the most part, and I really haven’t drawn in any …
Last week, I might have been exposed to COVID-19. This exposure would have happened between Monday and Wednesday. I found out on Wednesday night, and got tested on Thursday morning. I feel fine. I don’t have a fever, I can taste and smell things. No shortness of breath or cough. When I got tested, they …
On April 1, I started to feel like this pandemic was something that I needed to document. I often feel the need to document things – I’ve been blogging for almost 13 years now (wow, that made me feel old) and I’ve been writing in a journal for 18 years, on and off. That’s a …
This book was fluff – it was fun and entertaining. There was a lot of drama throughout, and the pacing was quick, which kept it engaging. It was fun look into the lives of the super-rich, and made me think a bit about the types of problems that transcend class. I watched this movie when …
I thrive on structure and routine. Pre-COVID-19, a fair amount of the structure and routine in my life depended on external factors. School, spending time with friends, going to the gym. I still am doing those in some form, but the specifics of what they look like have changed radically. It’s been an adjustment, for …
I’ve been gardening for a long time. When I was four or five years old, I had a small planter that was shaped like a deer where I planted pansies, in high school I grew swiss chard and purple carrots, and I’ve been nursing a little jade plant and a large split-leaf philodendron for two …
Twelve, almost thirteen years ago, it was the summer between middle school and high school. I read Looking For Alaska for the first time, and I really loved it. Over the next several years, I became a fan of John Green’s books. His most recent book, Turtles All The Way Down, came out in 2017, …
This book was a great mix of being entertaining and engaging while also digging into issues of racism in America. The book alternates between two primary timelines – the present day, where Candice Miller and her mom have moved to her deceased grandmother’s house in Lambert, South Carolina for the summer, and Lambert in the …
I love goals and I love lists and I love tackling a huge, unknown expanse of social distancing by giving myself a big, challenging goal. I want to study math enough to pass the Math 7-12 Praxis test. I used to be a math teacher (and I was teaching a math intervention group at school …