Or, the van is dead! Long live the van! Brian stayed home from church Sunday morning because he’s been ill and was still not feeling […]
Oren moved out
where I give a shout out to The Terrible Cough, The Move, The Camper Van, and Empty Nesting It’s been almost two weeks. He caught […]
Another stop along memory lane, but this time, on education
I (and sometimes Brian) homeschooled our boys until high school, so it’s fun to come across this mini essay on education I wrote when Seb […]
Seb’s first trip to the NRG, a repost
I’ve decided to go back to my old blog, anklebiter.net, and grab some writing I did when my man-children were mere babes. The other day […]
A midsummer quickie to remind you that I still exist
This will be swift because I don’t have a lot to say at the moment, and I want to take a bit of a break […]
Writing on Substack makes me want to jump out a window
or hurl my computer to the heavens or both at the same time… Be forewarned, there be vitriol below A couple years back, a friend […]
Therapeutic climbing
or, climbing anyway when my physical therapist says I shouldn’t but I decide that I know better I am losing track of the time I […]
Crocheting through it
Where thought becomes stitches At the end of January I read a memoir titled 50 Miles by Sheryl St. Germain, who was the director of […]
When walking is working out
And, surprisingly, what ends up being a meditation on Easter I have begun a new phase in my injury experience: walking on my own two […]
Speaking of molting
Watching the skin fall off of my entire leg, ankle, and foot as they heal, and as the puckered incision transforms to a smooth, thin, […]