a gratitude-focused blog
Posted in daily on Jun 17th, 2008
I am setting up my home office, which is by no one’s definition spacious. Especially now that I have to house a real business here (as opposed to a comfy spot for facebook’ing, flickr‘ing and other daily online reading) In-with-the-new necessitates out-with-the-old, or I risk becoming this woman. My methods of cleaning out are varied: [...]
Posted in 9-5, Sun Prairie, daily, nature on Jun 17th, 2008
Almost every work day for the past three years, I have had afternoon sunlight, CDs on or in my desk, and ugly ceiling tile. Suddenly, this afternoon, they all lined up just right to make the most beautiful natural display I’ve seen in my office at any time during my tenure in Sun Prairie School [...]
Posted in entrepreneurship, running on Jun 16th, 2008
I am getting super excited to invest in all the technology my budding business will need: mainly a laptop to replace the one I now have (which is owned by my soon-to-be former employer). I’ve decided I’m going MacBook. The best part is there is a special going on for educations folks (students, professor, employees [...]
Chances are, if you live in Wisconsin, sometime over the last week you’ve heard one of the following: Can you believe all this rain? I’ve had enough of it! Damn Wisconsin weather. The devastation is beyond belief! We’ll lose millions in crop damage. Poor Lake Delton. We got water in the basement, but not as [...]
Yesterday I finished my sweaty jog at our garden plot and, with labored breath, started poking around in our strawberry patch. Pushing aside the broad leaves with my palm, I spotted about a dozen red berries hiding near the ground. Some have already gone rotten, after only days of neglect, the ground-side of them now [...]
I seriously love ducks. Mostly in their natural, alive state – but in photographs too. In December, during a White Elephant party some fool was giving away an old duck decoy lamp. I traded whatever other unwanted gift I had at the moment for the lamp and hoped that no one else saw its potential [...]
An expression of gratitude for all that is good in my life.
