from zoom.earth I’ve has a bit of time to get my thoughts together on Hurricane Milton now that a few days have passed since it made...

During one of my French lessons awhile back, I learned words related to what I guess I’m going to call “units of food”. One of the funny...

No, this isn’t some sort of slang or innuendo, it’s an actual thing that somehow I didn’t know it was a thing until recently. How did I...

I recently started reading The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro...

Switching gears a bit from my posts about my May trip to France, this one is about an upcoming trip to do the Camino de Santiago. I...

This post is a follow up to my France 2024 Edition post, covering my time in Nice and Antibes. My souvenir Phryge on the train After a...

This post is a follow up to my France 2024 Edition post, covering my time in Paris and Giverny. I finally got an opportunity to go back...

Back in late 2019, my husband and I optimistically planned a fantastic French vacation – starting in Paris, where I had a work...

Today marks one year since my mom died. In some ways, it feels like it’s been maybe a handful of months but in other ways, it feels like...

I have a sabbatical coming up early next year and I’m pondering walking the Camino de Santiago during it. The Camino has been in the...

Last week, the world lost one of my favorite musicians, Jimmy Buffett. For some people, his music is an acquired taste but for me, I grew...

Today marks 10 years since I joined my current employer Automattic back in 2013. I suppose it’s fitting that I’m spending the day...

My mom passed away unexpectedly a few months ago and I’m still struggling with the grief process. I know that grief is not a linear...

My daughter and I took a trip to Berlin at the very end of 2022 into the first week of the year and we had a great time! For once, I was...

I’ve had a link to this article, “ Buy less, do more: 5 reasons why experiences make us happier than things” sitting in my post drafts...

Went to a new local park today and spotted this critter casually sunning itself despite the number of people walking by. I didn’t see any...

A while back, I wrote about a taking French lessons – first as part of some upcoming planned travel to France, then as a pandemic...

Here are some of mine: Fear of criticism Fear of being judged incorrectly Being a person who likes privacy yet posting in a wide open...

I have an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto’s disease – sometimes also called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or Hashi’s. Or just “the Moto”,...

Un nuage de lait. Photo by Burst on Pexels.com Such a lovely and evocative phrase that I learned recently from my French tutor. It means...