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Letters from my future self…
I’ve done a lot of self-help books. It started back around 1995 when I bought The Celestine Prophesy because it looked cool. I’ve started The Artist’s Way more times than I can count, but I never seem to actually get past the week where you’re supposed to take yourself on artist dates. Because I have a lot of excuses about that one. Excuses which would be totally awesome to bust through, but right now those excuses are still stronger than the reasons to bust through them. One book I really enjoyed was How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. I made it through that one. Side note: when I lived…
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America, I love you, but you’ve gotta get your isht together.
Every time there’s a mass shooting in America, we add a year to the time we’re going to stay in Spain. I say that only half jokingly. For the past week we’ve been dealing with issues with our electricity. It’s not just our house – our entire valley has been going dark randomly. And it’s not that it shuts off and stays off. Oh no, that would make way too much sense. It flashes on and off. Then shuts off for five minutes. Then comes back on for two minutes. Then off for eight minutes. On for twelve. There is no method to it at all. Hubby thought maybe they…
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Nesting and Comforts of Home
The past six years in Spain have felt like being in a holding pattern, waiting to land somewhere – anywhere. We originally came for a year long adventure, which turned into six years largely due to a series of unfortunate events that I’ll write about someday, but not yet (because I am a tease). We spent a lot of time filling out forms to renew our visas every couple of years, which we were never quite sure would be accepted. But we just got approval that we have unlocked a new achievement in this game of expat life: Permanent Resident Status. This means that we can live in Spain –…
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The Week in Books: Scribed and Siena
Each year I set a reading goal for number of books I will read, and I try to average about one a week. This year I set it for 55. After years of having a young kiddo in the house, working my own business, being perpetually exhausted, and only daydreaming about the times when I used to luxuriate in bubblebaths with my Kindle, 2021 is turning into a calmer year, and I expected I would be able to read more. I have a stable contract and don’t need to hustle so hard, my child is sleeping and amusing herself independently, and so I set a big juicy reading goal of…
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Weathering Winter and my mid 40’s
I haven’t written in this blog in a while. Not since it was winter, and new closures were hitting our municipality, and I was anxious and stressing over the coming winter under stricter regulations. But now we’re halfway through spring, the state of alarm in Spain is ending on Sunday, the cases are way down, vaccinations are going up, and life is getting back to some semblance of normal. And I turned 45 yesterday. I didn’t do much to celebrate, because at some point the birthdays start coming so fast that you just don’t seem to have the time to mark them in any big way. In the evening, H…
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