Your family might be perfectly normal. You never laugh at (imaginary) people’s pain or when the make-believe dragon eats the make-believe policeman, and I’m very happy for you. It must be nice to be that well-adjusted. But if you aren’t that well-adjusted or if you want a glimpse of my slightly weird family for a…
Category: Family
Show and Tell
Mountains are pretty awesome, and my niece is pretty cute. That’s my thesis. Here is my first piece of evidence: That’s great, right? But not as adorable as this: If you have a niece who’s that cute and that sad, you naturally want to help. I thought that sitting with her and chatting might do…
Long Drives, Weddings, and Other Things
Okay, I’m back from my giant vacation, also known as 3 days off. Unfortunately for you, there were about a trillion small things going through my head on the trip. I’ll try to keep the random thoughts to a minimum. The one-sentence summary is that mountains and corn fields still make me happy, I still…
Inheritance
My grandmother loved to hoard. Her closets were bursting with shoes that didn’t quite fit, clothes that her children wore 40 years ago, and things that she hadn’t thought about in 20 years. I’m not proud of this, but I’ve often been smug about not sharing that trait with her. I like to use things…
Easter with the ‘Rents
I thought I was good at getting things done until my parents came to visit me this weekend. They put my productivity to shame and sneaked in a nap, too. My beds and mattresses are in different rooms than they were on Friday, my front yard contains totally different plants than it did on Saturday…
Presents and PJ’s
I went on an abbreviated road trip with my new roomie this weekend. We headed south, picked up some furniture from my grandma’s house, and headed north again with my car, my puppy, and a U-Haul. Even though the trip was really just eleven hours of driving and two hours of standing around, it was…
Small, but valuable. 