Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
My mother and I were just talking about this, about how strongly she loves palm trees and how it would be difficult to be depressed when you’re in sight of them. It’s not the palm tree itself that has antidepressant qualities, of course—the palm tree is more like a “side effect” of what truly affects … Continue reading On the Palm Tree as an Antidepressant
We’re not having the smoothest luck with air travel this month. Yesterday at 3am we queued up at the airline counter to check in and check our bag… and after a few minutes, someone came up to us and said, “You do know the flight is cancelled, right?” (Of all the dumb questions! If we … Continue reading Swimmy Christmas
We fly out for Christmas in the morning, which means we’re currently driving to a hotel by our airport. Living where we do, the night-before-travel hotel room is an integral part of the trip. Call it “Travel Eve.” For those of you (which will be most of you) who haven’t experienced the joys of a … Continue reading “Travel Eve”
What could possibly be better than having a Fairy Godmother? Having a REAL one, of course! When my dad was in grad school and my parents lived in Married Student Housing, they lived upstairs or downstairs (I forget who was where) from Klaus & Karen Sitte, and they became fast friends. The kind of prank-playing … Continue reading Better Than a Fairy Godmother
As work-environments go, ours is pretty out of the ordinary. We run an RV Park and live onsite (that's not the weird part---although it certainly has its interesting moments). It's a small park---just 105 sites, around 65 of which are occupied by long-term folks---which functions almost like a mini-town within our already-small-town. And we only … Continue reading Punching Bag
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