Where I Write About Things
Somehow, I survived the week. I capped off today by riding my bike on a Target errand and promptly collapsed at home for the night, because that’s just what time is like around here right now. Before the weekend is over, I have to read 2 books and help get the apartment presentable assuming we …
We finally used my grandmother’s steam juicer today. If you’ve never heard of one of these things before, it’s something like this. I will never make crabapple jelly without one of these, because you get the most crystal-clear jelly you will ever see, without having to cook apples and then hang them from cheesecloth to …
by Kate
It’s June, also known as Pride Month, and I’m looking at this blog I abandoned 8 months ago, because October got hard and life (of course) just kept happening. Life has been an endless string of weeks that start off with dread for the days ahead and end with me wondering how it’s Friday “already.” …
This weekend, there was a kiss of red and gold on the tops of the trees as we drove around the state. And tonight we have our first frost warning. This is the difficult thing about fall, when it seems like it’s so far off, and then suddenly it just jumps in front of us …
Friday night, we found out a fruit truck was going to be coming through Bemidji the next afternoon. Our plan was to have a relaxing, easy-going weekend. However, something about a lug of peaches being on offer derailed that for me. I didn’t even have to finish the thought for Ivory to know I wanted …
My grandmother passed away, in an unexpected sort of way. Missing her is a surreal kind of grief, because she lived a full and happy life but I, along with the rest of her family have been robbed of her. I want to wail about how it’s unfair, but this is one of those times …
It’s June! It’s LGBTQ+ Pride month, and I’ve been so busy with life, all I’ve been able to do is put up some rainbow lights on our balcony and raid our local Target for whatever interesting things were left in their display. A lot of Pride has been at a distance for me this year, …
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by Kate
The answer here is always follower. Always. In my opinion, leaders have to be pretty secure in their ability to make decisions or delegate, and I feel like the scenario where I run things has to be so hyper specific for me to be comfortable that it’s likely never to happen. I’m far too insecure …
I’ve become a lonely nomad on the internet, and it’s an existence I loathe entirely. It would be better if I just didn’t care about how I’m perceived, if I didn’t care about drawing someone’s ire, or saying something I then end up having to discuss with someone in-person. Instead, I open up Twitter and …
The end of January is staring me in the face, and I’ve got one blog post to show for the month, so this is my effort to disrupt that narrative After several abbreviated trips around our apartment complex, we finally took our snowshoes out for a more extensive walk. Everyone who I’ve spoken with about …
