Yesterday morning when I went downstairs for coffee, I found a little folded piece of paper in my mug (mercifully before pouring anything into it): I pulled it out and looked at it and saw a photocopy of a squirrel-meme my 16yo loves. It’s the one with the overweight squirrel looking like it’s patting its […]
The funny thing about working from home most of the time is that when you’re suddenly mandated to start working from home all the time, your day-to-day routine sorta kinda doesn’t change all that much. I sleep the best I can, wake up, drink coffee, read the news, and then go upstairs to my office […]
Saturday, we drove up to Denver to move our older daughter out of her dorm room. The dorm isn’t officially closing because there are students there who have no other housing options, but they asked that anyone who has other options to please vacate and turn in keys as soon as possible. They’ll deep clean […]
Today is the first day of spring, so we’re having a blizzard to celebrate. When you live at the top of a mountain pass, even a smallish one, this sort of thing isn’t unusual. What is unusual is that we didn’t have to look up school closings for this one. Because everything is already closed. […]
The afternoon before my daughter came home from college for what would become the rest of the semester, I took a look at her cat, Bubbles, and realized that he didn’t look good. At all. He had lost a lot of the weight he’d regained after his dental surgery in the fall, and his fur […]
My youngest is sixteen. Today, I dropped her off at her enrichment school, that she attends only one day per week, and then went on to work where I spent a couple of hours wrangling a large document into shape. It’s what I do for a living: make things look and sound better than they […]
That change in the air is finally here, the one that says summer really is over, the one that makes you put on socks in the morning before you go down for coffee, the one that says don’t blink — you might miss the Aspens change colors. The Aspens out my window are still mostly […]