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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: June 2024

  • Crescent City, California

    And I’m not big into journaling. It takes special skill to record events and activities in a compelling way and I lack that skill. Nevertheless, if this blog is meant to record memories for my children I think I owe it to them to try to write about this vacation as thoroughly as I can…

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  • Odds & Ends

    We have returned from our trip to Crescent City, California, and after a week of living my life by the tide tables I’m back to concerning myself with the patterns of the pedestrian walk signals in my city instead. Navigating my urban neighborhood is a completely different skillset than driving on a cliffside road and…

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  • Travel Style(s)

    We are packing for a big trip and I am feeling some angst about the whole thing. I’m not a good traveler. I don’t like doing new things or meeting new people, and I definitely don’t enjoy the uncertainties inherent in the act of traveling. I like to be home. Home is reliable. Home is…

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  • Triumphant Return to Camping, an indoor plumbing appreciation post

    We went camping this weekend for the first time in almost four years. Well, we went camper cabin camping. This is significantly easier than tent camping, in my opinion, but I do believe it still counts as camping. I felt like a camping noob, even during the packing process. How many bottles of propane do…

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  • Cosmetic Warrior Copycat Recipe

    I have been battling acne for more than twenty-five years, and I only recently discovered something that really works: Lush’s Cosmetic Warrior face mask. I have to give my sister credit for this find. She has the same skin as me but is more adventurous about cosmetic products. I was amazed the first time I…

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  • Pandemic Camping Memories

    We are going camping this weekend for the first time in almost four years. This is what happens when you buy a cabin. The cabin is all the good things about camping (catching frogs! morning campfire! drinking beer outside all afternoon!) and none of the bad things about camping (dealing with coolers for days! never…

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