A Celebration of Mundanity

I have to say, it's been frustrating finding the appropriate information about how to bring your pet along when moving abroad. My first instinct was to call Greenbean's vet, hoping he would know…

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -- Yogi Berra Just when you think life is starting to get really interesting, it throws you an unexpected and exciting curve ball. A number of weeks…

We have exciting news forthcoming. Why is it that everyone's first reaction to this statement they think we're going to have a baby? Have you met me? Have you talked to me in the past couple of…

It's March and Mark and I have already hit our quota, fitting with the pattern of movie watching in recent years, of "seeing one movie at a movie theater per year" viewing. We had a gift card to use…

From an article in Lifehacker, this is a really brilliant idea: customize your own holidays! The idea being to ritualize practices in the same way you do for holidays. If it weren't for the Fourth of…

"Denoviches Being Weird" by Geis

Or I should really say, "hiking" (imagine me miming quotation marks with my fingers as I say that). It was so sunny and nice out today, we wanted to go on a hike. But since we were limited on time by…

I was flipping through this months Real Simple magazine, looking at some the recipes. I reached this one, realized I had everything on hand to make it, that yes, I have had two small cans of coconut…

A few nights ago Mark and I watched Grizzly Man, the documentary made about the life and tragic death of Timothy Treadwell at the hands of the bears he studied in Alaska for thirteen years. He was a…

I joined Robyn on this hike that she rallied the troops to. It was a led hike organized through Venture Outdoors from the Geology of City Parks series, led by a Carnegie Museum staff member. I like…