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  • High School History

    Last weekend, while my oldest was at camp, Tim and I left our youngest with grandma and took off back to my hometown to go to my 30-year high school reunion. It was my first time back to the building since the nineteen-nineties. Our first activity, was to tour the old high school building. From…

  • Emotional Gifts

    This morning, I read a string on the internet of people talking about the emotional weight that women carry in families. One of the examples I read was wives sending Mother’s Day cards to their mothers-in-law for their husbands to help carry their relationship. Some were kind of sad, but I have a good story.…

  • Idioms

    Good morning class! Today we’re going over some useful idioms. These are colorful phrases that people use, sometimes describing their life or even to comment on yours. We will talk about each phrases’ literal and figurative meaning and whether or not it’s a backhanded compliment. Let’s get started. Ducks in a row. “It looks like…

  • The Clean Up

    In the late nineteen nineties, I did a research paper on Hanford. It was the location of the part of the Manhattan Project where they refined plutonium for the creation of nuclear bombs used against Japan in WW2 and during the build up of the Cold War arsenal. Because of the secretive nature of national…

  • Bachelor Blues

    One of the things that Tim and I do to bond is to share a show together. The current one is a comedy called “The Bachelor.” The premise is that a man tries to date twenty women at the same time. I can not believe this show is still going. It has been on for…

  • Don’t Build a Bunker

    Tim and I spent yesterday just chilling between work and the holiday onslaught. We ate microwaved leftovers and binge watched the Netflix movie adaptation of Leave the World Behind. I had listened to the audio book during the Covid lockdown. It’s a fictional “what if” about a family trapped in an Airbnb when the US…

  • The Right to Be Wrong

    I just watched the series Transatlantic, another Netflix World War II miniseries set in occupied France. The story is about how some Americans saved artists, writers and thinkers of the 20th century from the Nazi invasion of Europe. Unlike The Light, We Cannot See, this is based on real people in history. It was surprising…

  • Infinite Potential

    Last week, I helped an eighth grader do his math homework. Algebra is not my strength, but we figured it out together. It was about slopes on a graph. There were ten problems and when we finished the seventh, he said he could submit the assignment for a passing grade. I asked him if he…

  • Van Life

    Yesterday was a super busy day with zero down time. I was up at 6:30 with Eliana to get her off to the school bus. And then I loaded the dishwasher, and got half way through folding a load of laundry. At 7:45 I got Ivy up dressed and fed and we were out the…

  • When the Village Revolts

    Recently I heard about a European airlines exploring adult only seating. For an extra 50-100 bucks passengers can be put in a section for humans 16 and older only. The goal is to not have crying babies, getting your seat kicked, or having sticky hands invade your personal space. Tim and I super excited. That’s…