Everything Things
Well, I’ve made it another year around the sun, and one year closer to my age 42 deadline. I am 37 years old. (How did that happen?!) So I’ve got five years left. That sounds like so much time, but I know I can’t expect to cram in all the Things in the last two…
Something exciting happened this week — I started a four-week photography course at the Houston Center for Photography! I’ve been wanting to do one for my job for a while, and I finally gave up on the place where I usually take my classes ever doing a digital photo class again so I found this one…
First of all, thank you for reading this. I started off with a bang and I feel like I’ve been moving along with a whimper so I appreciate you sticking with me through the fits and starts. Good news – I have finished another Thing! We did Meatless Monday for Three Months, including this stew/chili…
I haven’t blogged in so long…I’m not sure where to start. I guess I’ll just catch you up on the Things I’ve been doing. I’ve made a few more Smitten Kitchen recipes — a slaw, alfredo shells and peas, and leek fritters with a sour cream lemon garlic sauce. All of them have been delicious…
Well, here I go again with the very irregular posting. See why blog consistently for 6 months is one of my Things? It will take some real effort. Granted, I do have a few good reasons for not being on top of my Things lately. I picked up some side work and it’s been gratifying…
Another two books marked as finished! First, The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood, edited by Avital Norman Nathman. This book was excellent. It was different writers, all mothers, deconstructing ideas around internet-driven ideal of the Good Mother. You know the one–Pinterest-perfect meals and crafts and home decor, always put together, always saying and doing the…
I’ve been busy with Things and life and work and chasing my awesome baby all over the house. In the midst of that, I made another Smitten Kitchen recipe: Brownie Roll Out Cookies. They were fun to make. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a lot of pictures. A picture from the cookbook, the dry ingredients, and…
Part 1: Clarification I feel like my last post was incomplete. I keep thinking about going back and editing it, but I decided to just clarify it here and move on. I mentioned finding what triggered my most recent depression. I want to make it clear that, this time…for me…there was a definite external trigger…
I haven’t posted in nearly a month. It’s been a hard month. My daughter was born in March of this year, and since then, I’ve been battling some pretty gnarly postpartum depression. Things started looking up in June and July, around the time I started this project, not-so-coincidentally. But things took a turn in August…
After finishing the Hitchhiker’s series last weekend, I was determined to dig into the Read or Rid thing by reading something short that I could finish that same day. I decided to start with Residue of Song: Poems by Marvin Bell. I’ve had this book for about 15 years because I bought it from eBay…
Forty-Two Things by 42 