Isn’t it strange how certain smells and sounds and even songs can conjure up the same memory every time you run into them? The smell of boxwood plants always reminds me of eating watermelon in the summer at my great uncle’s farmhouse. I’m seven years old again every time I smell them. For the past…
Category: Things That Make Me Happy
Belly Flops
Not feeling verbose today, so instead of an exposition of my feelings on capital punishment (isn’t that the sort of thing I usually discuss?), I’ll leave you with this video from Cute Overload: My family used to have a corgi, and I can easily imagine her doing the same flop in her younger years. She…
Anywhere
One of my friends and I sometimes play the “where would you be” game. So if I could be in any place/time right now, I would pick this spot: I would live above that shop, and I would spend the morning walking around town, maybe picking up some ingredients for dinner. There would be hot…
Of Dogs and Mail: Henry and Claude
Picking up a friend’s mail this week (he’s out of town, I’m not stealing mail or anything) has reminded me of some other house-sitting-ish experiences from my past, so let me take you back to 2006, when a young me was living on her own for the first time. This was post-college, pre-Peanut, and I…
Gooey Goodness
Tomorrow is special. I’ve been looking forward to it for an entire year. It’s Mud Run day. It’s true that at various points in my life, I’ve been in shape. This isn’t one of those times, but I’m still going to get myself out of bed really early on a Saturday to stand in line…
What They Wore
The wonderful world of the interwebs includes a blog called “What I Wore.” If you haven’t already guessed, it’s a visual account of what one woman wears every day. It might sound like a drag to you, but I like it. The woman in question seems like somebody you could actually hang out with, not…
New Adventures
I led the library’s monthly mystery book club this morning. There’s usually only one attendee, which should make me sad. It doesn’t make me sad though, because that one attendee is fantastic. She and her husband (who will henceforth be known as Lady and Husband) totally made my day, and not in the Clint Eastwood…
Small, but valuable. 