Sometimes it is hard to see all the growth and progress we make over time. We change a little each day, and those little changes add up to big changes. But when we just compare one day to the next, it often doesn’t seem like anything has changed at all. It is only when we [...]

I think I have now started three books, but there is a fourth I have out with a book mark in because I think I want to start that one too. I can’t decide what book I am in the mood for, so I thought I would start a few and see which one I [...]

Yesterday I decided to get all of my dishes done. While I was doing that I thought I should clean off my counters. And while I was doing that I thought I’d clean out my fridge. And while I was getting some sacks from under the sink to put garbage in, I organized the stuff [...]

It snowed a lot Wednesday night. I woke up yesterday morning and there was about six inches of snow outside. The trees were covered, the ground was soft. It was beautiful. Snow makes everything quieter, more peaceful. I wish I would’ve had time to get my camera and take pictures of the drifts on the [...]

I love vacations, but they cause so many problems. The first day back after a nice long vacation, long being anything over three days, is always so hard. The last thing I want to do in the morning is get up for work. Of course it doesn’t help any that I am most assuredly not [...]

It seems like quite a few books I’ve read recently that are set in the future have assumed some world-wide catastrophe, usually man-made, but not always, that completely destroyed life as we know it and forced the survivors to recreate it. Why is this? A few examples: Star Trek The Shadow Children series by Margaret [...]

I like to quilt. I can barely remember the first quilt I made. It seems like I’ve been doing them forever. That’s probably because I helped my mom tie quilts for a long time before I started tying my own. Part of how I define myself is as a quilter. It’s a large part of [...]

I have to do this for homework. My professor told us to start a blog for our class. It was my first class ever as a graduate student, and this was my homework. I thought graduate school was supposed to be hard or something. My mom says I use the word “random” too much. But [...]