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Documentary reviews, body neutrality, parenting, Jupiter, piano, cats, European history, ghosts, rodents, the collapse of civilization, and if this goes on long enough I'll probably end up cataloguing my entire smushed penny collection.

Month: August 2023

  • Meal Planning and Housekeeping Treadmill

    It’s summer, which means we spend most weekends at our lake cabin up north. Such a strange sentence to write. I never thought I would be a cabin owner. I spent most of my childhood packing up and going to my dad’s house every other weekend and I hated it and had no intention of…

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  • Documentary Review/ Arnold

    An engrossing biopic about a guy I didn’t think was particularly interesting. This three-part series covers Arnold Schwarzenegger’s whole life: from a boy growing up in Austria, through his bodybuilding career, to Hollywood, and finally to the governor’s office in Sacramento. I had a lot more respect for Arnold Schwarzenegger after watching this documentary. He…

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  • The clover can stay.

    I was just out in the yard doing a shit job of weeding. There’s clover and grass growing in some of the garden beds and I only made a half-hearted attempt to clear it. I picked up some sticks but not others. I didn’t get the pruning shears out at all. I find it difficult…

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  • August

    Why is it so hot?Why are others so happy?Summer is too long.

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  • Sleepaway Camp

    My oldest went to sleepaway camp last week. It was five nights away, the longest he has ever been away from us. I had been dreading this ever since we signed him up in January. What if he couldn’t fall asleep at night? What if the other kids were mean to him? What if he…

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