On a recent fall morning in a small city park shelter in one of the suburbs that make up the Des Moines Metro area in this little swath of the Midwest, activity happened. Twenty-three geocachers were signing or stamping one hundred-nineteen postcards meant for forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, Japan and South Korea. There […]
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I am still here – Redux
I actually handwrote this entry out before typing it here. It’s been awhile since I did that, but often writing things down on paper, while time consuming, is more productive creatively for me. My dearest, most magical readers….. You’ve probably been wondering where I have been. It’s been awhile since I posted anything on the […]
Deconstructing my rules
Anyone who knows me knows that though I am a goofy magical person that tries to march to the beat of her own drum, I also am very much a rule follower. The issue is that I tend to follow a bunch of rules that only make sense in my own head, rules that have […]
Life Lessons from Geocaching: Solo Adventuring
The other half and I have been geocaching now since 2019. If you don’t know what geocaching is, well, there is a blog post I wrote about that. But this is a post in what I will hope will be a series of posts about the lessons of life that I have learned while doing […]
Be Ridiculous
The other day, in the midst of some crazy at the full time job, with my head swimming of things I needed to do and people I needed to speak to and reply to. I got a voicemail. A voice from the past who said just a few words….. And suddenly I taken back in […]
Life Lessons from Geocaching: Adventure awaits
The other half and I have been geocaching now since 2019. If you don’t know what geocaching is, well, there is a blog post I wrote about that. But this is a post in what I will hope will be a series of posts about the lessons of life that I have learned while doing […]
Just breathe
A couple weeks ago, I had a very crazy day at the full time job. The hustles and bustles of the job left me feeling like my head was spinning. I paused for a brief minute when I had the moment to get a long and much needed drink of water and calm the spinning […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
