Early wake up time this morning. The sooner we got started, the sooner we would get back to the car.…
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- Backpacking
- Biking
- Books
- Cambridge
- Cats
- Challenge
- Chicago
- Cleaning
- Crafts
- Daily Journal
- Day Job
- Electronics
- Essay
- Fandom
- Fantasy
- Fiction
- Fitness
- Flute
- Food
- Fool
- Goals
- Grief
- Gym
- Hair
- Headaches
- Health
- History
- Hockey
- Home
- House
- IBS
- Judging
- Languages
- Monsters
- Music
- Nominee Project
- Pain
- Philosophy
- Photos
- Poetry
- Political
- Publishing
- Race
- Ritual
- Romance
- School
- SciFi
- Snark Alert
- Social
- Song
- Sports
- the stroke
- Travel
- Upper Country Singers
- Video
- Website
- Whine
- Wilderness
- Work
- Writing
Best Use of Leftover Fries
When my husband and I were driving back from the Oregon coast, we needed to stop somewhere and get dinner.…
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We got to sleep in! And we both did, even though Ambrose is usually up and out of the tent…
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Maybe your day is going well. Maybe it’s going poorly. Maybe you’re hungry. Maybe you’re tired. Maybe you just have…
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The morning was also very cold. The wind hadn’t really let up, probably because we were in the river canyon…
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What is it that makes you “you”? Not, what defines you? Not, what experiences made you who you are? But…
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I took a half day off work on Thursday so Ambrose and I could drive up to the Queens River…
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As I prepared to embark on a fly-out backpacking trip, I decided to do a little “spring” cleaning. It’s late…
Continue ReadingWeekend Warrior – Virginia Gulch
Ambrose managed to injure his thumb with a pretty deep cut. We didn’t want to expose that cut to the…
Continue ReadingDigestive Health Update
My body has decided to debut some new flavors of pain in the last couple weeks. Usually, I’ll get some…
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