What I read in December
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander #2) by Diana Gabaldon ★★★★★ Ok, I will say that I am biased and that you can’t come here for an honest, objective review (but when is a personal review of...
One Little Word® for 2022: forward
photo credit: Razvan Mirel via Unsplash I don’t really have a process on how to come up with my guiding word for the new year; it is usually less ‘active thinking’ but rather an opening...
Best purchases of 2021
When I thought about the things I purchased in 2021 that bring me joy, I instantly came up with like 5 things (and then a couple more to make it ten.) I am not a...
Things I wanted to do in 2021
photo credit: @maplepharaoh via Unsplash I guess I am doing this now, taking a look back at the things that I wanted to do in the last year, which I put on the blog for posterity. I guess...
2021 | end-of-year survey
I saw this end-of-year survey on Stephany‘s blog, and then my friend Lisa posted her own version, and I enjoyed it so much and found this recap so intriguing that I am jumping on the...
Goodbye 2021, hello 2022.
Happy New Year, friends. I hope you all arrived safely in 2022. And no, it’s not “2020 too”, damnit, and no repeat of 2021 either, although I do understand the sentiment that just because the...
A year in review: 2021
Wow, where did this year go? Besides 2021 being much more disappointing (in many regards) as expected, it also disappeared in a blink of an eye, right? I know I say that so often that...
Our Christmas 2021
Well, to be quite honest, I thought this Christmas was going to be different. I had high hopes that we would be able to travel to Europe, maybe. And yeah, yeah, we *could* have, technically…...