Starting Over: Life Lessons from Crocheting

I recently started crocheting a shirt. I bought the pattern and the yarn, and then I did something I usually don't do - I crocheted a swatch for size comparison. This swatch allows you to measure your crochet style with your yarn against the pattern designer's crochet style with their yarn. This is especially important …

19.5.25 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Triggers, by Marshall Goldsmith. More research about habit formation. Most valuable lesson so far: situation leadership and the idea that all of us have within us the planner and the doer. The planner is the one who wakes up in the morning and has grand plans for everything she is going to …

Summer 2019 Bucket List

A new city means new adventures! We moved to Milwaukee in January, aka the dead of deep-dark winter. Everyone we've met has told us that summer in Milwaukee is amazing and that there are festivals all the time and that every day is magical. Now that I'm pretty sure winter is over, I've started thinking …

Tiny Habits Program Review

What do you do when you want to build a new habit into your routine? A few years ago, I was trying to make sure I took my vitamins. I had them in a kitchen cabinet, within easy reach of cups and water, and taking a vitamin is just about the fastest thing you can …

19.5.18 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: How to help women in states with extreme anti-abortion legislation. This week my heart has been heavy with the consequences these bans have on our sisters in these states, as well as the painful, harmful rhetoric going along with them. Reproductive agency for those who can get pregnant (trans and non-binary folks …

19.5.11 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Insight, by Tasha Eurich. This book is all about increasing your self-awareness, which is the ability to see ourselves clearly. Apparently, we aren't very good at this - we have very little skill in accurately gauging how well we understand a topic, and the more confident we are, the less we objectively …

Do You Have a Collection?

When I was a kid, I dappled in collecting. There was the sticker book of the 90's. I had a soft spot for stuffed animals with missing ears, so I acquired a couple of those. When we visited national or state parks, I would pick up a thimble or spoon or enamel pin. I lacked …

My Favorite Vegetarian Recipes

Because I've been a vegetarian for so long, I'm often asked about where to start when my friends and family want to reduce their meat consumption. I keep a Evernote directory of recipes that I can share with them, but not everyone likes that platform. Since my last post told the story of how I …

How I Learned to Cook

I've been a vegetarian for about 10 years. However, ask anyone I lived with in college, and they will tell you that I lived off primarily chips and salsa. I didn't really learn to cook until I moved to Japan. I wanted to be a vegetarian there too, but culturally, it's not a familiar concept. …

19.5.4. Curated: Links from the Week

Some of my favorite blog posts are the round-up style ones that are often published on the weekend. I have found so many interesting articles and topics to explore from these curated posts - it's like a look into the everyday things that intrigue people throughout their week. Since much of the focus of restarting …