The last few weeks have been quite the whirlwind. There is more than I can possibly say in a single post, but I will do what I can to post more frequently now that we are at least not living bi-coastally. A couple of days after we arrived with cats in tow, David and I …
Category Archives: About me
So many thoughts, so little time
I am building up quite the collection of draft posts that, for an assortment of reasons, I have decided not to post. The most prevalent reason being a lack of time to devote to editing. I tend to draft posts by spewing words on to the screen, so they can be fairly incomprehensible without that …
Our next great adventure
After a week of jet-lagged misery, I am finally over whatever nasty bug I brought home with me and feeling human again. Even so, I don’t think the enormity of the move has fully hit me yet. I am going to take this window of opportunity to share my thoughts before the logistics of a cross-country …
November is for writing
My responsibilities at AgileBits have changed over the past couple of years. As with the rest of my experience at AG, I am incredibly fortunate that these changes are for the better. In addition to doing the technical support work that I love, I now have taken on some responsibilities for writing and editing. I …
Ring of Keys
Today, at long last, I am finally getting to see Fun Home. I have been a fan of Alison Bechdel’s since I discovered her Dykes to Watch Out For series in 1988. When I first encountered her, she was an obscure lesbian cartoonist whose compilations were published by an obscure lesbian publishing house which went out of business …
Struggling with my thoughts
I have been working on this post for 4 days now. I keep getting about 300 words in and the deleting it all. My thoughts are all jumbled in my head and the words just don’t seem to want to cooperate. Every time I write a post I keep reminding myself that every one doesn’t …
Over the hump
Last week was fairly tough for me emotionally, but I seem to be over the worst of it. In fact, I even got out and walked yesterday and it seems very likely I will get out today as well. If for no other reason then I need my bike tomorrow and the tires need some air. …
Doing All the Things
Lately several of my friends have been giving me the exact same advice. In a nutshell, they are all saying do everything I want to do now because soon my flexibility and mobility will be seriously compromised for a good long while. I don’t tend to go out much anymore for a what I thought were fairly …
Chaos and files and hard drives, oh my!
Today is not going quite the way I would like it to. It started out nice enough. I woke up with Dancer snuggled up to me, which is a new, but very pleasing behavior. I came downstairs, drank my coffee answered some emails and got a bee in my bonnet about going through the old …
Challenging questions
One of the well known aspects of the adoption process is that it involves a lot of paperwork. This weekend David and I completed the long personal narrative questionnaire. The questions were pretty much what you would expect, until I got to the one asking me to describe myself. I was surprised to discover that …