So here we are again, another Sunday. Another week of plugged into online meetings all day – and sometimes in the evening too – and not doing much of anything creative, except maybe cooking dinner. And not taking very many pics of food or anything. Like today, I planned to make some more masks with … [Read more…]
So, I feel like I haven’t been recording the things on my blog that I normally do. I mean, in theory my tagline is “reflections on life & food”, so I like to write about what I’ve been watching and reading and cooking and eating. But it’s winter and it’s too dark to take pictures … [Read more…]
And, I realize it’s incredibly privileged to be calling this pandemic year “weird”. Everyone in my family is working remotely, still getting paid, relatively safe. But in terms of cookie season in the pandemic year, it’s weird. I am vacillating between borderline depression, feeling like nothing’s coming out right, and moments of feeling happy and … [Read more…]
Sometimes negative is positive. Like Saturday morning when I got my most recent Covid test results back as negative – that’s good because it means I don’t have the virus, even after working the election almost 2 weeks ago. I waited to give it time to incubate. Sometimes positive is negative. Like this whole election … [Read more…]
I haven’t written since we got back from D.C. two weeks ago. I could say it’s because I’ve been working on getting my fall semester online courses ready, and it’s so much the same, writing content and posting it online in a content management system, that I don’t have energy left for blogging. Maybe. I … [Read more…]
I’m a little unhappy with my post about last weekend, our crazy Chicago to Madison to Chicago weekend for two graduations. I feel like I reported, but didn’t really express everything I was thinking and feeling. This is a tiny bit due to my desire to protect the names of the individuals involved, but primarily, … [Read more…]