Hey, how are you holding up? I feel like I’ve been on a mad, mad roller coaster ride, slingshotting from abject despair to daring to hope to smashing pizza boxes on the recycle bin. Repeatedly. I’m seriously considering a trip to a Rage Room, where they give you stuff to smash. I always thought that sounded wasteful until, well, a few Supreme Court decisions dropped. Now it sounds like a gift from God. I get to vent my rage and someone
…Author: Cheryl
It’s drizzling in Burbank. In June!! This news is as exciting as discovering that someone cleaned my kitchen while I slept. Even when we’re not suffering extreme drought, rain so rarely falls here in the
…SUMMER IS HERE. DUH.
Anyone who has set foot outside their home lately knows just how hot it’s been. Some 120 million people in the U.S. under heat advisory alerts from the National Weather Service in the last week, and the number of deaths are rising. Can we finally talk about climate change as the killer that it is? Or are we going
…Finding Hope in a Pile of Ripped-Out Yarn
Ripping out yet another failed attempt at a knitted scarf, I’m cursing my inability to follow a simple knitting pattern—one that “real knitters” on the Ravelry site called “simple and straightforward.” Liars. I haven’t knitted in
…MEMORIAL DAY
Looking ahead to the long weekend, with no holiday travel planned, my mind turns to the never-ending list of chores. After all the rains this past winter (and the brush clearance notice in the mail), weeding, weeding and weeding number 1, 2 and 3 on the list. Not that there aren’t plenty of other tasks—when you live in a 96-year-old house, there’s always a long list—but none carry the threat of a $700+ fine if I don’t complete
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