In Oregon, on a good year, summer would last 12 whole glorious weeks. On a bad year, it lasted more like 8. There would be a couple of weeks of unbearable heat, accompanied by the sheer misery of not having central air conditioning. Mostly, though, it was beautiful, mild, and over long before it woreRead More
Archives for 2013
Family Fandoms Colliding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b_ubVVnWglk There’s something for everyone in my house in this one little video. Tom Hiddleston teaches Cookie Monster about delayed gratification. Hooray!
Fitness Friday: Free Online Workouts for Working Parents
This week, I want to focus primarily on workouts I’ve found that help me with work-related pain and stress. Like a lot of people, I spend 8 hours a day sitting at a desk, staring at a computer screen. I’ve done this for nearly 6 years straight. Not surprisingly, I have a lot of neck,Read More
Fitness Friday: Embarking on a Fitness Journey
One of the main things I’ve wanted to do for the last several months is get myself into better shape. I live a fairly sedentary life. I have a desk job where I spend an unbelievable amount of time staring at a computer screen. I work from home, so I don’t get out much unlessRead More
Happy 29th Birthday to Me!
I’m 29 today, and I wanted to write a lovely post about entering the last year of my 20s, which seems like it should be important, but I just found out that I’m an auntie for the first time ever! My brother- and sister-in-law welcomed their baby girl into the world this afternoon, and IRead More
Becoming a Mother
Sometimes, when I think back on those last few weeks before I became a mother, and I was impatiently waiting for Isla to be born, I think about those people taking video of the 2004 tsunami, standing on the beach and marveling over the strangeness of the ocean that day, unaware that what they wereRead More