My entire life is for sale on Craigslist ( Read more... )

DISCLAIMER: I have never been to Europe. But every time I look out the kitchen window of The Mansion, I see the house across the street and call it "Europe" in my head.

So today I am convinced that this is what a wintertime European village looks like:


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I am giving myself 10-12 hours to sleep tonight, because the kiddies at work gave me their cold. Once again ( Read more... )

First of all, these kids are my besties and I love being around them:


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I suspect that I will long for Milwaukee as long as I live.

Don't get me wrong; I'm in love with Madison, and ready to move to Cape Town.

But part of my heart will always be in that great city on a Great Lake. I'll always miss that city, and my life there. And that's OK.


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Spent the day sleeping, reading, and occasionally puking. A-what? I haven’t been the barfy kind of sick in at least four years-I lived in a dorm room the last time this happened. Ugh.

Luckily, I was awake to catch my favorite light of the day. I decided on this apartment for the view, and I remembered why today:


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Even though surviving for one half hour during a power outage in a house as the only adult among three under-3-year-olds wasn’t on my bucket list, it is still something I can say I have done.

It sounds worse than it actually was. There was little crying. When a thunder clap hit right over the house and the TV shut off, I let out and involuntary ( Read more... )

Say you were to take a two-hour-long stroll around Madison, Wisconsin, from the Capitol Square to Willy Street, then to Atwood Ave., finally curving around Lake Monona, on a Saturday afternoon. You’d set off, say, around 6 p.m. What would you see ( Read more... )

The weather was warm yesterday; it was almost hot in the sun. So I wore a pair of flats that haven't seen daylight since last summer.

Throughout the day I walked quite a few blocks back and forth. It did not make my feet feel happy. I ended the workday in a cafe reading reports, and also had a job interview on my cell phone. That is, until the ( Read more... )

Tried to make the most out of the gorgeous weather today. Walked to public library to pick up next book club book. Canvassed for next year's VISTA positions on campus and State Street. Relished the long walk to Rumi Reading Club ( Read more... )