Babble

I forgot to categorize it. Might mean something. Probably doesn’t.

Physical Education Shouldn’t Make Kids Hate Moving

I’ve been thinking about how we’re basically taught in school to hate exercise and sports. And by we, of course, I mean the kids who are already inclined to hate them. I was not fat until I hit middle school, when puberty, depression, and loss of my mom hit me. I loved square dancing in […]

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The Possibilities Are Endless

The Possibilities Are Endless

And that’s part of the problem–on a lovely (because it exists, not because of the weather, which is HOT) weekend, the possibilities are endless–so they can wait. There are boundaries, of course, of time and money and weather (did I mention it’s HOT?) and the current pandemic–but within those boundaries, I still could never name

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My Birthday Present

Y’all, I have a coelacanth. Roomie got me a coelacanth! I’m not really up for explaining the sea life tonight. Here’s a post where I talked about it ages ago. Here’s the current bed lineup. I have learned, over the years, that the more sea life in your bed, the less room for you, so

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My House Smells So Good

My roommate bakes for fun, y’all. And though we are very much not “we need space for entertaining!” people, she does love to feed people. Enter Christmas, and a visit from her parents. Roomie made chocolate crinkle cookies. She fixed Tuscan Sausage Pasta. She baked pfeffernĂĽsse. She made bread (to go with the apple butter

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Depth of Flavor

Depth of Flavor

I’ve never been (and probably never will be) a fancy-cooking type person. My favorite TV chefs are Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, but I only watch Gordon Ramsay to see him swear at stuff and then help fix things. And even Jamie Oliver, who tries to make things easy–I mostly don’t make the food I

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So, Uhh…New Book!

I know, I know…I show up, I announce I’m back, maybe I post a few more times, and then I vanish for months. You can’t see, but I am hanging my head in shame. Honest. I’m not going to promise not to vanish again. I’ve got some plans to get myself in a better headspace

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It’s Almost Ten

It's Almost Ten

It’s almost bedtime, and I categorically deny having spent at least an hour tonight on YouTube videos, trying to figure out what forest animal gets rescued in this scene I’m editing. I also didn’t spend an hour making ramen that honestly wasn’t much better than what you get in the ten-cent packages. (It also wasn’t

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