1/25/2025
I have a lot of pictures; most are photographs Len or I took, but I also have an incredibly random collection of internet stuff saved over many years.
I’m feeling random today, so I’m sharing a few of them. There will be no rhyme or reason to this. Some days one just deals with what comes along.
1/23/2022
Thanks to you who responded to yesterday's post with affirming comments. It feels awkward and sad to cancel activities we want to do with people we like and love. As our friend David so helpfully reminded, “Just because we’re paranoid doesn’t mean it isn’t out to get us.”
1/22/2022
Judy suggests a podcast that her daughter-in-law, an infectious disease physician, listens to and recommends. It’s The Osterholm Update: COVID 19. Osterholm is an epidemiologist and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He’s on President Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board.
1/12/2022
I have a lot of projects to get through today. I wrote this in 2006 when I worked at Target for six months. I still like it.
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This week I saw an inspiring sight. I saw a little kid completely lost in his imagination.
We hiked on Sunday.
1/11/2022
How was your weekend?
Have you noticed that with this omicron iteration of covid isolation – if one is not an employee - it’s tricky to tell what is a weekend and what is not? I think about what my kids might be doing and maybe we call them and that is the main way weekends are different from weeks. By what other people are doing.
1/7/2021
Lincoln gave a speech in January of 1838 to Americans alarmed by mob actions.
1/5/2022
I can still hear my mom saying, “I don’t know whether I’m coming or going today.” I thought of this, one of her favorite sayings, when I wrote this letter to the Third Graders yesterday.
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Dear Kids!
I hope you had a fine winter holiday. Now it is January 2022. Do you know where the word January comes from?
This is a lemming. Make mistakes this year, but don’t make the lemming mistake.
1/4/2022
This morning, while looking in our under-the-fridge freezer for soup for supper (neither of us want to cook today), we discovered a towel-wrapped lettuce. What can I say? It’s a whole new mistake to make that we have never made before.
12/30/2021
I know a fair amount about the planet-killing toxicity of western culture’s “fast fashion” so I was impressed by what I read this morning in “The Day the World Stops Shopping.” (I wrote about this book yesterday in case you missed class. Hah.)
