So today, we confirmed (by a Vance tiebreak) a FOX news host as Secretary of Defense. It’s the latest piece of evidence that I am trapped in some sort of absurdist black comedy. I think I’m handling it pretty well. I read a whole book, threatened to not leave my living room for the next
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting. I’ve lived in DC for 35 of the last 37 years, and never managed to visit the Mormon temple, which is just up the beltway. Part of that is that it’s not always open to the public, and figuring
Another long day, which started at 5:30 when the power went out. See, a few months back, we lost an entire freezer full of food when we didn’t realize that we had an outlet go bad. So, to make sure that didn’t ever happen again, Kevin put an alarm on that plug, so that we
Long day today, so all I have energy for is this. I really want to talk tattoos, but that may wait till Friday. Anyway— If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? If I could have just one superpower, I think it might be the ability to talk to animals.
I had a post blow up on Bluesky this week. Not like, a million views or anything, but for someone with only 3000- followers, to post something and have it reposted almost 100 times with460 likes (as of right now)…well, that seems like a lot. And I talked to Kevin about the fact that even
Today was the darkest day in a minute, but I guess we carry on. What choice do we have? I remember after John died, people telling me how strong I was. I didn’t understand that. Being strong is facing a situation about which you have a choice and choosing the hard thing. All I was
You may notice that right now, am averaging a book a day, far ahead of my planned book a week. This is due to two factors. Maybe three, but the first two are sort of two sides of the same coin. One, it’s fully and completely winter here, and we are all nesting a bit,
One of the advantages of having a really slow reading year is that you find out when you go to look for things to read that not only have your favorite authors released new books, but it’s been long enough that they are easy to get at the library. And I know that I said
Remember that I have declared 2025 my “Season of Balance”. This is the year that I am going to focus on the myriad of things I love, while taking care to not focus too much on any one. We are less than three weeks in, and I am finding that to be much, much, much
Long day. Three tattoos, which I’ll share the story of once they heal and I can get good pictures. But… Where can you reduce clutter in your life? Oh man. Pretty much everywhere. Nah, that’s not true. It used to be. I lived the first…54 years of my life in a state of barely-controlled chaos.
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Lori Piper