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Finding Magic in the Mundane

I don’t lead an extraordinary life. Far from it. I work a pretty mundane full time customer service job where I am face to face with people all day long. I come home to my fairly mundane two bedroom brick house on the southside of the largest city in Iowa, known as part of flyover […]

“I wish you’d grow up”

When I was younger and living in the Golden State, my grandmother across the country used to send us money for Christmas. Each person got a set amount usually in the middle of December to spend as we pleased. My parents would take us shopping in the weeks leading up to Christmas so that we […]

The rest is still unwritten….

Lately, the muse of writing has been kind of quiet in my life….. But that’s understandable. I’ve been busy with other facets. I do work a full time job and sometimes it gets crazy there. The adventuring with friends to find geocaches has been strong, especially since I am less than twenty days from a […]

Motherhood

I’m gonna need to get something off my chest. Mother’s Day was this past weekend. But amidst the cards and the candy and the wind chimes and flowers and plants and the little handmade gifts that were given, there is a undercurrent as well. The holiday was started as a movement to recognize WOMEN in […]

Reteaching

A few weeks ago, I spent a Friday finishing off the twenty five geocaches that make up the Warren County Conservation Board’s geocaching adventure just south of my home county here in my little swath of the Midwest. That day, I had hiked the equivalent of six miles. The final geocache was an unpublished one, […]

Kith and Kin

I don’t have any family that is related to me by blood here in my little swath of the Midwest. Most of my blood family lives on the East coast of the United States, though I still have some family in the Golden State as well. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have a family […]

The protest remains

This past Sunday was Easter. It sure seems like a long time ago already, even though it’s been only four days. But in a world where everything seems rushed and well, we were watching and waiting to see if an entire civilization was going to be “annihilated,” the message of Easter and “Christ has Risen! […]

Dejections

The other day I finally did our taxes. As I went to download my 1099-MISC for royalties from 2025, I got notified I didn’t even receive a 1099-MISC for last year because I didn’t even hit the threshold for it. It was kind of a mental blow. But in a way, it is my fault. […]

Yo-yos

It’s been a weird couple of weeks here in my little swath of the Midwest. We’ve gone from highs in the 60s, 70s, and quite possibly even 80s here this weekend to having a blizzard last weekend and then sub-zero wind chills. It’s been a roller-coaster of a few weeks and hopefully, we will get […]