Let me first concede: other people have jobs that are just as hard, or harder, than mine. More tedious, onerous, meeting-filled, snackless, ...

Baker. Or maybe, actually, Patissiere. Stay at home grandmother. Writer of bon mots. Poet with a benefactor of mysterious origins. Ow...

It's been all food around here, and by that I mean we've gone to the farmer's market twice in two weeks, the first visits this s...

Dear America, Last week, I found myself in need of a 'main dish' to bring to a pot luck. I also found myself in need of something ...

It begins, the beginning of the academic year, in the middle of a week which already feels long. To wit: Sunday, when we drove home from ...

First, I'm definitely not getting enough sleep. Chalk that up to jet lag, but also the early morning dog, and also jet lag, and the argu...

We arrived in Aberdeen after the usual bearable, but only just, trains-Atlantic flight, and a long-ish layover in Ch...

It's now a trope, to talk about the cascade of the worst possible things--Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, the violence in Dallas an...

Yesterday, after the historian came home from a medical procedure, buoyant despite feeling dragged out, no doubt, from anesthesia and so for...

1. Sparkly librarian sweater. I realize that this characterization makes, potentially, an insinuation about librarians. So, to clarify: libr...

1. Three excellent breakfasts in a row. One: Wednesday oatmeal, which I have perfected according to my own tastes (one half cup oatmeal, 1 ...

"Let's live it up when we go to Arizona," I told the historian. Not like it was an actual proposal. Maybe more like a directiv...

We got in to the airport in plenty of times, because like the rest of America, we were afraid of long ass TSA lines. Which fears, of course,...

People really like to play Minecraft. Also: eat pizza and listen to organ music. Also: watch Zootopia.

I'm continuing to work on my little Hank Williams obsession. I am, of course, working on a poem, or something that might become a poem. ...

I am having my classic post-semester let down: feeling generally exhausted, judging my own character harshly, eating Pop-Tarts. (That last i...

Q : How long since the semester ended? A: Depends on the meaning of 'over.' It's been thirteen days since I finished my grad...

Today, I am thinking about the summers of yesteryear, when I ate my breakfast on the porch and under the trees and flowers and so forth.  Le...

1. My washing machine now requires no intervention on my part to finish a cycle. For approximately years, my washing machine has decided to...

Today, I took my general unwillingness to spring from the bed in the morning and joyfully get about the day's business to a new level (t...