Gathering Moss - July 2025

Today I want to tell you the story of my mom falling down an escalator and breaking her back. …

On Death

I went 45 years of my life without ever seeing a dead body, and then I saw two in the next two …

Gathering Moss - June 2025

Wow, have I had a busy couple of months! …

writing update

You know the biggest thing that keeps me from writing blog posts? It goes like this: Pretty …

Flux Capacity

Closing the books on 2024. …

On Hobbies

Do I have too many hobbies?

I’ve noticed something over the past few weeks of packing up …

Update Roundup

Roundupdate?

You may have noticed that my blog posting pace increased dramatically over the …

I wrote a book

Contrary to appearances, I do more with my time than make clothes and watch Veronica Mars.

I …

Pajama Lessons

The Machine is Not The Boss

Learning a new skill when you’re 46 is a lot different than …

Summertime Sadness

Oh right, it’s this again.

I hate summer.

Raised in the Pacific Northwest, I rarely had …

Bingo Update

It’s been a couple months since I started using Bingo! to organize my daily life. Let’s …

Sewing Bee

Recently I started watching The Great British Sewing Bee, which is just like The Great British …

Solar Eclipse

Like millions of other people, I traveled to see the total eclipse on April 8.

I saw the …

This Week In Bingo

I don’t, technically speaking, have OCD. I have what my therapist calls …

This Week In...Iceland

Hello! Pardon my absence. Autumn was intense, with an upward trajectory in my energy and a …

hello, world

I’m nine weeks FIVE weeks (wow it feels like longer than that) post-op and starting to feel …