Good Things Jar 2023

We embark on a new chapter for the Good Things Jar.

Welcome 2024

I am hoping to move through Proust’s list, one question at a time, and answer each in exhaustive detail for myself.

Finding Satisfaction from Birds

Children, like birds, will delight you or frustrate you and that is entirely dependent upon YOU, not them.

A Loss Hard to Express

Tara and I had a terrible loss this year.

Graduation and other updates

I am so late in telling you, but Tara graduated from college!!! Yes, in June my kiddo received their Bachelor of Science in Geology. I am very very proud of my baby for sticking with it and doing all the work to make it happen in the end. It took six years and there is […]

Quilts

Today’s post is about 2 1/2 quilts. And love.

Birthday Kitchen Party

I did not expect that when I spent this summer jobless I would be busier than ever, but it’s true! I thought that those hours when I used to be glued to the computer I would now spend more time in the garden, or just relax on the deck with my kitty. What happened is […]

Rendezvous in Bend

One of Tara’s summer classes this term was geology field camp. Oregon State University has a great geology program, and Tara has field trips as part of a class multiple times a year. But field camp is when the entire class is on location. This latest class was 5 weeks out in the desert of […]

Tara is 21

Dang, it went like a blink!

Not your parents transgender

This person who has been right next to me all these years, is actually way more genuine and brave than the one I gave up.