Oasis of Sanity

 It's not that I've stopped writing.  I've just stopped writing here. Life is just as crazy as it ever was, but it's not mak...

 It's twenty-four years now . It was a typical day, really, and I couldn't understand why I was crushed with sadness on my drive hom...

 "Swedish death cleaning" Apparently, there's at least one book out there about this, and I've seen multiple articles, tho...

 Technically I have one more day -- maybe an hour or two -- before I can officially declare it summer, but I'm jumping the gun anyway: n...

 I didn't mean to go so long without posting.  The temptation is to say there's nothing going on, because really, it's just the ...

 Wow, that was a quick 6 weeks.  What happened? I worked like crazy to finish all my grading before Christmas break began, and I was a very ...

 DD came down from Flagstaff for the weekend specifically to put up our Christmas tree and decorate the house.  I told her bluntly when she ...