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A brutal Tuesday. With the added drag of a meeting after teaching. I'm not home until after 8 which, honestly, seems way past my bedtim...

Do you know that the phrase from the title line can be applied to any number of vignettes from your day? For example: as I type my daily ...

It is so very unusual to wake up and hear that you're under a tornado watch in November. And then to hear the winds outside, hitting th...

At midnight last night I finally said -- enough! No more talk of airfares! No more speculating what wins the "boring trip of the year...

In winter (and let's face it -- we're close enough to that season that we can dispense with the Fall talk), weather matters to ever...

Time. It's shocking how it can move quickly even as you're not doing anything that would warrant a significant usage of hours. It...

On this second most busy day of the week, I sit in my office as the evening rolls in feeling not a little nostalgic. A student meeting remi...

You know by now that Tuesdays this semester are my burrs, my most stressful work-packed days, my moments of madness and furious efforts to ...

Every now and then, we've been finding small puddles in the basement. At first, we thought it was the pickles, leaking their brine. The...

Spick and Span Massive farmhouse cleaning. Sometimes I rush it and cut corners, at other times I'm intense about it. Today I am inten...

If I were paid for my labors by the hour today, at the end of it all, I would not be rich. If I were paid by the effort put into it, I'...

When Ed suggests a game and a dinner for tonight (UW women's volleyball --  free tickets, but still...) -- I say sure! The day is start...