My niece said for her birthday she wanted to spend the day with me IN BINGHAMTON. I thought about this a lot and realized that for her whole life I’d been telling her that I couldn’t stay, I had to go back to Binghamton. I had to make sure she believed that Binghamton was a […]
I sometimes try and see the world through my niece’s eyes. And it’s terrifying. I know I’m lucky to have grown up in a time before social media, before we walked around with small computers in our pockets that controlled our minds and tracked everything we do. I know I couldn’t live without technology because I’m […]
Sometimes I struggle to have things to say if I don’t have a photo to back it up. Like this week, the only pictures I took the entire week were of a display of donuts so I could decide which to order while I ate my breakfast and a photo of my boss demonstrating prusik […]
In March 2022, I brought my nieces to the trampoline park for one of their birthdays. I can’t honestly say they liked it. I did. I think they didn’t. They spent the whole time running from one thing to another without actually doing anything. They were desperate to have fun but didn’t try to actually […]
My internal mantra used to be “I just want to make nice things and get enough sleep.” These days my mantra seems to be “I just want to do everything and still get enough sleep” I’m just not happy doing one thing anymore, the world is so wide and incredible and I want so much […]
Yesterday I spent my 12,045th day breathing on this earth and I know well enough by now that there will never be enough days for all the things I love. There will never be enough days spent with my nieces, swimming in hotel swimming pools and having slumber parties for their birthdays. There will never […]
Wednesday: I’m writing this on Wednesday because I feel bad and I don’t know why. I am on the verge of having 5 and a half days off and they will be filled with wonderful things like hiking, biking, rock climbing and the peak of fall colors in the Adirondack mountains. So why do I […]
I don’t like scary movies. There’s something about them that gets under my skin and into the remnants of the overactive imagination I’ve had since childhood What I do like is actual scary things. Haunted houses, corn fields at night, bats, the rattle of dead leaves behind you on a full moon night, abandoned places, […]
I feel like adult conversations are totally passionless. We talk about our jobs, kids, the weather, the state of the lawn. And I do this too, don’t get me wrong, but I feel like I’m full of so much more, and maybe you are too? I was thinking on Friday about how I wanted to […]
How do you know which days will be the best ones of your life? The ones you will remember when you’re old and arthritic and can’t remember like you used to? I wish I could live every day like it’s the best day of my life. Fortunately this week it’s been pretty easy. The whole […]
