May 30 Cooked

“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?” Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation I watched all four of these documentaries on Netflix about cooking and the importance of cooking to human development, relationships and even…

May 29 Boulder Creek Festival

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are, there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to…

May 28 Five Songs, Five Sets

“No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.” Tall Handsome Son and I have never worked out together. Today was our First time working out together. Since we aren’t home, we had to make up a workout on the spot and this is what we came up with: we…

May 27 Dwan Light Sanctuary

  “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” Bertrand Russell Today I decided to get in my car and drive North. Why? Because why not. I have a car, gas is cheap and I am free. There’s this “Children of the…

May 26 Learning to Juggle

“It always seems impossible until it is done.” I tried to learn to juggle today for the First time ever. This isn’t something you can learn in one day. Or should I say, this isn’t something I can learn in one day. I watched an instructional video on how to juggle then I tried it….

May 25 Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” Andrew Carnegie After work today, Tall Handsome Son and I set out on a Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt on foot. I “Frankensteined” (to make something from several other similar things) a list of …

May 24 Recipe Roulette

  “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon, or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne Today I needed a new idea for dinner so I went on the interwebs and chose the FIRST recipe that jumped out at me on Pinterest (thank goodness it wasn’t a recipe for beef tongue or liver). The recipe was…

May 23 Twinkle Toes

“I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they’ll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth… Even when I’m uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold… I think, Thank God for what I’ve got.”…

May 22 No Play at Dave & Buster’s

“The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep.” Anonymous If you’ve ever been to Dave & Buster’s, you know that it is obligatory play at least one game. Even if it’s only Pac Man or the basketball game. I kick butt at the basketball game! Bottom line:…

May 21 Preakness

“A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.” Frederico Tesio Preakness Stakes is a horse race that takes place at Pimlico Race Track in Maryland every year. It is the second oldest race track in the nation (second only to Saratoga in New York). Seabiscuit raced there in…

May 20 Contacting the Blogoshpere

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is one step outside of your comfort zone.” This is my second blog. I started the first one kinda half-assed as I was leaving Ohio and making my way to New Mexico. I was weirdly inspired to start blogging when I gave away about 200 plants for free on Craigslist. I…

May 19 The Mystery of XOXO

“When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting, no matter where each may be located.” XOXO, hugs and kisses, right? I have this all wrong, apparently. I have always thought that X’s were hugs and O’s were kisses. The entire world says it’s the other way…