Slice of Life Challenge

    • Love actually is at the airport

      This morning I’m picking up my in-laws from the airport. It’s been over 20 years since the 9/11 attacks and the change in airport security, but I still feel the nostalgia of greetings and goodbyes at the gate. I remember many early mornings being picked up at the Milwaukee airport…

    • I thought it was autumn

      This morning was grey and drizzly and absolutely magnificent. This might be considered blasphemous, but as a Southern Californian sometimes I get tired of the sunshine. Yeah, I said that. Maybe it’s a case of the grass-is-always-greener syndrome. (It literally is because we’re always in a drought.) But I relish…

    • Safe! or am I out?

      It’s MLB playoffs and as a Dodgers fan (#goblue) I’ve got baseball on the mind. So when I looked at the clock and saw there were about 15 more minutes until midnight Eastern time, I imagined myself sliding into home as I logged in to read some blogs and write…

    • Who has free time?

      I almost didn’t write today because…well, I’m tired! But I couldn’t go yet another week of not posting; I’ve already missed two. As I was sitting here thinking about how I didn’t want to miss writing another blog post, but also how I just want to sit on the couch…

    • Lesson (not) learned

      Last week I wrote about how I tend to be pretty lucky, particularly when it comes to losing things. While I was writing, I remembered a moment from high school when I didn’t think I was so lucky, even though I really was… “Bye! I’ll be back on time!” I…

    • Lucky streak

      My husband always says I’m a very lucky person. Not just because I married him (pause for chuckle), but when things go awry for me, they somehow always work out in the end. Of course, that’s not completely true, but it happens often enough that I think he might be…

    • People who need (online) people

      A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how much I missed seeing people in person. (People in person…that has a fun ring to it.) Then a couple of days ago, I was on a Zoom meeting and, well, it turns out I miss seeing people online! To be fair,…

    • People who need people

      I have a little confession. I was starting to like meeting on Zoom and working from home. Or so I thought. Here’s what I liked, sometimes loved: not commuting to and from work (if you’re from Southern California, you know what a big deal this is); not having to pack…

    • Land of the free

      This is a late post. Like really late. Like it’s about July 4th late. But it’s still July and it’s a free country right? Actually, that’s the question I’m pondering, what does it mean when we say it’s a free country? What is freedom anyway? This year my family and…

    • Anyone else nervous?

      After California lifted so many of the COVID rules on June 15, I’ve sloooooowly started to feel safer and safer going places without a mask. But now with news continuing about the Delta variant, I’ve started wearing my mask regularly again. I had dinner with a doctor friend who told…