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2022 Reading Update #2
Half a dozen books in after the first quarter of the year. My reading always picks up when the weather is nicer, so I feel like last year’s total of 31 is in reach. Here are the four I have…
I Did It!
Finally! I have achieved my goal and blogged every single day of March. This silly little challenge was just a personal effort to see if I could get back into the routine of something I had kind of pushed to…
Searching for the Perfect Pair
Not all sweatpants are created the same. I have come to understand this truism over the past six months or so. Blame the pandemic. I appreciated sweatpants long before COVID-19 appeared. But the way I lived my life – constantly…
Choose Your Setting
Generally, I embrace change. I feel like some situations cause me to rise to the challenge and make me a better person. However, getting a new toaster might not be one of those times. We needed to make this change….
Caring by Not Caring
My career as a full-time journalist ended almost 22 years ago. I last wrote something for a newspaper about 7 years ago. My identity is no longer wrapped up in that profession. I haven’t felt that way for a long…
Surviving the Mean Streets
One of my favorite things about living in a small town like Hanover is making fun of people who freak out about every little thing. This mainly takes the form of talking about safely walking through town at night as…
A New Challenge
I don’t really know why I decided to start “creating content” around the games I play on Football Manager. I think it had to do with a lot of the things I get involved with – I saw someone else…
I’m a Loser
I could not figure out today’s Wordle puzzle. And that’s OK. I didn’t share that one to the thread I use for my results because I don’t really need to share my failures. (I have a single Facebook thread for…
2022 Reading Update #1
My reading journey for 2022 has started a little slower than some other years. I am only two books in with the third one not too far away from the end. I kept meaning to blog about the first two…
A Day Late and Many Dollars Short
I made a private promise that I would blog every day in March. I didn’t share this with anyone because I know myself and had low expectations. But here is my first post of March explaining why I didn’t post…