Monthly Archives: January 2013

Expensive Hobby or Cheap Pets?

Categories: Happy Things

We don’t have to take them to the vet. We don’t have to provide shelter for them. We don’t have to take them out for walks or clean up after them. And if we stop feeding them, it isn’t a case of animal cruelty and they won’t die. Keep reading

The McBlatt

Categories: Food, How To

The genesis of one of our favorite sandwiches – because I felt the bread in a BLT should be acknowledged. Keep reading

A new do

Categories: Happy Things, Life

I’ve been cutting Brett’s hair each month since August. It was time for him to return to the favor, kind of. Keep reading

Lessons from the weeds – have good friends

Categories: Musings, Relationships

I don’t worry about making our yard immaculate, I just make sure it looks better than the neighbors’. But it also helps to have neighbors with good yards. Keep reading

Where did that come from?

Categories: Random

The other morning I awoke with a song stuck in my head and it confused me. Yes, it was a song I knew. But it wasn’t a song I had thought about for more than two decades. What in the world during my sleep had prompted the memory of that song to come jumping out of the recesses of my mind? Keep reading

What’s the point?

Categories: Education

Honesty. Integrity. That’s the point. Being able to look yourself in the eyes, know who you are, and being at peace with it. Keep reading

Just need to choose a font

Categories: Education, Life, Musings

Five years ago today I moved to Tucson with a five-year plan to get a PhD. Turns out it is going to be exactly four months longer than five years. But pretty close. And now it’s time for a new five-year plan, once I pick the font for it of course. Keep reading