Shopping anxiety and Black Friday don’t mix
I have shopping anxiety.
It started earlier this year, when I started getting rid of nearly everything I own. It was easy to give stuff away or sell it. Most of it, I just gave away.
Adulting is a real thing
Adulting is a real thing, for parents, anyway.
If you’re a parent of a young adult – or responsible for one in some way — you’re familiar with this concept, even if you didn’t know it had a name.
Kelly Williams Brown is a humor writer who’s credited with coining the term “adulting.” She makes “adult” into a verb: “to adult.” She wrote a book about small steps young people can take to become a grown-up.
I love a blank page
I love a blank page.
It’s an invitation, when you first open a document or flip the page in a notebook. I love the feeling you get when that blank page is in front of you. Crisp. Clean. Untouched. Waiting for you.
Waiting for you to fill it with your thoughts, your ideas, your art or your words. It’s waiting for you to fill it with … you. Read more “I love a blank page”
Grilled brats taste like summer in Wisconsin
We grilled out. Brats. Turkey brats on a charcoal grill. Grilled brats taste like summer. They taste like Wisconsin.
You don’t know how hard it is to find brats in Tennessee. I take that back. You don’t know how hard it is to find turkey brats in Tennessee. A staple of grilling in Wisconsin — tailgating anyone? — brats are becoming more popular in other places. But turkey brats, well, that’s another story. Read more “Grilled brats taste like summer in Wisconsin”