February
Happy February all, from a hazy afternoon here in the Midwest! Hard to believe it’s February already. February has always been my least favorite month. Still winter, but not the new, fresh, holding-your-breath-for-snow winter. No, it’s the dragging-on, when-will-spring-be-here kind of winter. The world is ugly and brown. Hiking is…
More Reflections on Traveling – Some of What I Came For; a Change
One of the things I rediscovered was my ability to be adaptable, to be flexible, to bend and move and adjust. It was serious discovery, an important one; it permeates all the corners of my life. I have tried to bring it back with me, to let it seep back…
Reflections – Days 3-5 on the Outer Banks
Continuing from this post… I have finally arrived at my chosen destination, a place I love: the windswept Outer Banks of North Carolina. There I face some additional challenges (aka “opportunities for learning”): rain, wind, cold, flooded campsite, solar and electrical issues. And yet – and yet – I find…
Happy Christm-Ass!
A short break from my reflections to help celebrate the holidays… Adam and I took Van Morrison down to this funny little town in the Ozarks called Eureka Springs. I have fallen in love with the area and the town! We have been shopping and eating and wandering, as much…
Reflections
It’s been a minute, hasn’t it?? Or a lot of minutes… I’ve made lots of excuses these past three (or four?) weeks about why I haven’t posted anything, the latest being that the laptop I had been using, a castoff from my work, was such a behemoth that I loathed…
Warning: Mundanity Update Ahead!
Thursdays have become one of my favorite days of the week. It started out because we were bowling in a league on Thursdays after our Sunday night league ended. For a few weeks there was an overlap and we were bowling Wednesday nights with our Fetlife group, Thursdays in the…
An Actual Scavenger Hunt
Another solo camping / remote working trip for me – the last short one (I think) before my two week solo trip to the Outer Banks at Thanksgiving. This one had some challenges to be solved and overcome as well, but little by little we’re getting the van set up…
Baldy in the Wild
There’s a Scavenger Hunt location called “Your Name in the Wild,” and it’s a fun one. I am always looking for a Jade Street, or perhaps a store that specializes in jade, or maybe an exhibit that has jade in the description, but the two times I have seen it…
My First Solo Vancamping Trip
It’s been my dream to work remotely for as long as I have known that remote work was a thing – long before I ever had a job where it was possible. When I was offered the opportunity to work from home in my last position, I jumped at it…
Soft Focus
I’ve had a jagged couple of days: work has been enormously demanding and I’ve had to deal with all of it alone as everyone on my team except me has multiple days off; I’ve been sleep-deprived as I have tried to adjust to early rising (4:30 am) three days a…