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Reflections
Field notes from everyday life — gratitude, growth, and small thoughts worth slowing down for.
July 29, 2026
Well… This Wasn't on Today's Bingo Card
This morning was supposed to be simple. Follow-up appointment. Get told to drink more water, maybe mention that I lost another pound or 3, pretend I'll actually remember to reduce my stress, and head to work. Instead, my doctor looked at my heart activity, frowned in that way doctors do when they suddenly stop making […]
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July 29, 2026
Holding My Breath
I think I accidentally stopped breathing.Not literally. Obviously. Though judging by the state of my shoulders and jaw over the last week, maybe not that obviously.When I finally fixed the code on my website—the bug that had been strangling my creativity for days—I felt something I wasn't expecting.Relief.Not the little “yay, I fixed it” kind […]
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July 27, 2026
Freakshow, Foam, and 7 Dust
I finally posted the Prosecco blog post. It only took me… six days. That innocent little post, originally written on the 21st, somehow became the catalyst for one of the most frustrating debugging sessions I've had in a long time. Instead of sharing a glass of bubbly and celebrating a productive day, I discovered my […]
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July 21, 2026
You Have to Earn the Prosecco
People love posting the bubble bath. The candles.The wine.The relaxing music.The perfect little aesthetic moment. What they don't usually show is everything that came before it. Today wasn't glamorous. Today was work. The kind of work nobody applauds because it disappears the moment it's finished. I wrestled with making our split-king Nectar bed—which, for nearly […]
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July 19, 2026
My New House Came With an Unexpected Assistant
One of the first things I wanted to do after moving into this beautiful new house was finally get organized. Not just “throw everything in a drawer and promise I'll deal with it later” organized. I wanted systems. Something that worked with my brain instead of constantly fighting against it. So I sat down with […]
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July 18, 2026
Hope Sneaks In Quietly
If you've been following along lately, you know this blog has been a little heavy. Life has been… a lot. A missing cat. An aging dog whose future weighs on my heart every single day. Health struggles. Moving. Family stress. The constant feeling that I was one more inconvenience away from completely unraveling. Those feelings […]
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July 17, 2026
Sometimes I Feel Like a Bad Mom
I don't think people talk enough about what it's like to parent adult children. When they're little, everyone tells you to protect them. Kiss the scraped knees. Chase away the monsters. Hold their hand crossing the street. Then one day they're 23 years old, texting you at 4:00 in the morning to tell you their […]
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July 16, 2026
I Found Myself Buried in Boxes… and Under a Layer of Dust
I was supposed to be at work yesterday. Not just working, but working with my AG students who are so close to production that they deserve every bit of my attention. Instead, I was in bed all day, sick, exhausted, and feeling like my body had finally waved the white flag after months of trying […]
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July 9, 2026
How Do You Know When It's Time?
I haven't written much about Blitz lately. Not because she isn't on my mind. Because she's on my mind all the time. If you've followed me for a while, you know who she is. My faithful running partner. My shadow. My children's protector. The dog who could outrun just about anything and somehow still have […]
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June 30, 2026
Where the Hell Have I Been?
If you've been wondering why it's been so quiet around here lately, first of all… thank you for noticing. I owe this little corner of the internet an apology. I haven't written a blog post. I haven't made a journal entry. I haven't even uploaded my latest photography session, which, by the way, is an […]
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June 15, 2026
Sciatica Gives Exactly Zero Fucks About Your Plans
I woke up Sunday morning with the kind of back pain that makes you question every life decision that led you to that exact moment. Not “Oh, I slept funny.” Not “Maybe I pulled something.” I'm talking about the kind of pain where you sit up in bed and immediately start negotiating with every deity […]
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June 10, 2026
AI Isn't Coming for Us. Humans Are.
Every time I open social media lately, somebody is screaming that AI is going to take all our jobs, destroy civilization, and leave the rest of us fighting over canned beans in a dystopian wasteland. The thing is? I think they're half right. AI absolutely is taking some jobs. Hell, I'm an IT tech. I […]
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June 9, 2026
The Numbers Don't Lie (Even When My Brain Does)
A few months ago, if you'd asked me whether all the walking, food changes, supplements, medication adjustments, and questionable health experiments were making any difference, I probably would have shrugged and said, “Ask me again when I stop feeling like a stressed-out raccoon who accidentally drank battery acid.” Because that's the thing about health journeys. […]
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June 9, 2026
Why Is My Watch Yelling At Me?
Photo attached: my fitness watch informing me that my stress levels are apparently through the roof while I sit comfortably at my work from home job watching horror movies and reviewing technical support calls for idiocy. I mean….accuracy. The thing that makes this warning so annoying is that it almost never happens when I'm actually […]
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June 8, 2026
Fifty-Three Years Later, I'm Still Figuring Out Who I Am
June is Pride Month, which seems as good a time as any to admit something: I recently changed my pronouns to they/them. Not with a dramatic social media announcement. Not with a carefully crafted coming-out post. Not with a rainbow-themed press conference. I just… changed them. Facebook. Instagram. Slack at work. Anywhere there was a […]
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June 7, 2026
Pedaling Toward Better Numbers
Tomorrow is blood draw day. If you have familial high cholesterol, you know those appointments come with a special kind of anxiety. You can do everything right and still end up staring at lab results that make you question whether your DNA is actively trying to sabotage you. But this time feels different. For nearly […]
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June 3, 2026
I'm Going Old School: Why My Future Blog Posts Might Be Written in an Actual Journal
I know. In a world where I can talk into my phone, have it magically turn my rambling into text, then edit it on a computer while simultaneously watching fish videos and forgetting why I opened half my browser tabs, deciding to write by hand seems a little ridiculous. Yet here we are. Recently I […]
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June 1, 2026
Backyard Birding. Sort of.
I went outside with perfectly respectable intentions: capture a few lovely birds in the backyard, maybe come back inside feeling like some serene woodland lady with a camera and a deep spiritual connection to nature. That is not what happened. Instead, my backyard turned into a full-blown neighborhood production starring one opportunistic squirrel, at least […]
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May 31, 2026
The Quiet Weight of Shiny Stones
I cleaned out my biggest aquarium this week. Morrie, my cichlid who has ruled that tank like a tiny moody king, has been resettled into new accommodations — alternate arrangements, as they say in polite company when really you mean I rearranged an entire ecosystem on a Saturday. The tank that held his whole world […]
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May 5, 2026
Abbey Road, Florida Edition — A Sandhill Detour on the Way to the Preserve
I was headed to the preserve when a family of sandhill cranes turned a shopping-center entrance into the most unexpected little gem of a morning.
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April 30, 2026
Trying it: a Himalayan salt ceramic inhaler
Field notes from someone who's just doing what she can on her own, between the inhaler and the oxygen tank. If you've been following along, you already know I've been slowly putting together a little patchwork of “things I can do on my own” — the cholesterol-lowering soup, the recipes that lean greener and lighter, […]
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Pause. Breathe. Refill the Cup.
🌿 There's a particular kind of tired that sneaks up on you when you've been pouring out for everyone but yourself. The kind that settles into your shoulders after weeks of overtime in a tough new role, after long days of holding space for the people you love, after answering every call but the quiet […]
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