Kick Ass or Die

I just got back from six days in Mexico… for five of those days I had a decent wifi connection and really good intentions of

I don’t think we really need photographic evidence to prove that over the last three years I’ve become a crazy bird lady. But just in

Most days when I sit down to write, there’s a narrative just sitting there waiting for me to put words around it. You know, progress

So, I know, I did all of the gratitude/nostalgic stuff earlier this week–and just in case I haven’t made myself clear, I am grateful for

Three years ago, on the day I officially closed on this house, I started a fun little tradition of having a glass (or two) of

A good friend of mine recently asked me to come speak to her class of college freshmen about, well, life. Specifically about how I chose

Well, okay, so last week wasn’t my week for making progress on the actual tiling portion of the upstairs bathroom. The first time I wrote

The thing I worry about most as a person who has been telling stories on the the internet for the past decade is… well, actually,

This is the current state of my indoor workbench… It’s a pretty good metaphor for my life. Little bit of awesome, lot unfinished… I used

Yesterday was a really good day. Which may seem weird, because I woke up to two feet of snow blocking my driveway. My heat went

For some reason I’ve put up a hoover-dam sized mental block about installing the tile board up in the upstairs bathroom. Because god forbid I

Okay, so, listen… yes. Of all the millions of things in the world I could build, this bed is on the list… I mean, it’s

You might be under the impression that I am, in fact, a responsible adult. Which is fair… I’ve been under that same impression since the

Yeah, yeah, we all know that nice kids get presents and naughty kids get coal, but nobody ever tells you what stubborn kids get for

It’s not actually snowing right now, you guys, nor is it supposed to snow in the next week according the weather forecast, which we all