Family
What happened to the chicken bag?
The types of explanations we received as kids about the mundane questions of life, alters how we develop our capacity for internal reasoning. Becoming educated with diversity of…
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Sushi Bake Beliefs
On Food Culture, Balls of Beliefs, Paradox, Music, and Menopause Yesterday my daughter found a recipe for a Sushi Bake, and I was immediately skeptical. Who wants to…
Family
non-shop adventures and the underappreciated art of window shopping
Here’s a little story about non-shop adventures and participating in your local economy even when you aren’t flush with currency. It’s like flash-mobbing a business you love, but…
Culture
Generational Curse Breaking for an Everyday Lady
Disclaimer: in order to do this, you don’t actually have to be a lady. I am case in point. I’m also not recommending you believe in curses per…
Creativity
Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project
On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…
Culture
Over-Unders for the Sandwich Generation
IE the gamble of choosing material renunciation as a middle-class, middle-generation American. Sitting here squarely in a middle class “sandwich generation,” I’ve noticed a few things. Trying to…
Family
Mother of
I was out late last night at a concert with my teenager. Total bonding experience, and great to see how even punk and goth music can still send…
Family
If it’s brown…
There’s a bell in the bathroom at my mom’s house. Like one of those “ring for service,” bells that dings when you slap it. Because there’s more than…
Family
Band of Brothers
A few weeks ago, a solid, insightful, kind and loving man from my home town took his own life. I knew him a little, and what I knew…
Family
The inhumanity of over-helpfulness
In my digital world, where AI is proliferating, technological “helpfulness” can sanitize language between humans to the point where it is blocking real human-to-human communication. Let me explain.…
Family
Good Mourning
Originally Published Via newsletter on 8/5/2025 I’ve been thinking a of writing a series of good morning letters in honor of my mom, who was Yelp before there…
Family
Good Morning Letter
Dear Younger One, Your mom asked me to write. She said you were doing pretty well. I’m glad. I also heard you are afraid of growing up. Turning…