Bookends: January 2024
Over the winter break, I made some decisions about the direction of my professional life and how I prefer to spend my middle years, and by the end of January, … Continue reading Bookends: January 2024
Over the winter break, I made some decisions about the direction of my professional life and how I prefer to spend my middle years, and by the end of January, … Continue reading Bookends: January 2024
This month went by in a bit of a blur. It was stressful a lot of the time, but we made some time for fun. The best times were had … Continue reading Bookends: November 2023
October is usually my full-on spooky reading month, and while I did read several spooky/thriller-type novels, my work schedule kept me from doing the other reading-related things I look forward … Continue reading Bookends: October 2023
September is the month that I discovered that two weekend days aren’t enough to recharge me for the rest of the workweek. I’m not sure if it’s simply not enough … Continue reading Bookends: September 2023
There have been a lot of changes since last I posted. My elder child graduated from high school and we went on a big graduation trip during which I fell … Continue reading Bookends: August 2023
In January I focused on reading from the Tournament of Books Shortlist. I made some decent progress and completed 10 of the 18 titles. I finished 7 in December (well, … Continue reading Bookends: January 2023
I read long ago that if you take a blogging break, there’s no need even to mention it when you return, so this is me not mentioning it. November was … Continue reading Bookends: November 2022
With the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this month, I saw two things: a lot of posts and commentary about the sense of unity that existed in the United … Continue reading Bookends: September 2021
This month, the theme in our family seems to be reinventing ourselves. My teen has asked to be called by a different name and has started exploring personal style via … Continue reading Bookends: August 2021
July has been a strange month. My spouse was going to go back to work on-site, but Delta variant caused the call-back date to be pushed back a few months. … Continue reading Bookends: July 2021
After three of our four family members got vaccinated, my spouse and I started thinking of things we could do as a couple that would still protect our youngest until … Continue reading Bookends: May and June 2021
Well, our foster mice weren’t (and aren’t) pregnant. Now they’re available for adoption but still living in my daughter’s bedroom. The cats have almost entirely lost interest in the new … Continue reading Bookends: April 2021