Category: irl
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The Animorphs and Politics
Last week I finished reading the Animorphs. I’ve read it before, back when I was a kid, but reading it this time was a totally different experience. Most obviously, I’m older, so a story about a bunch of teens doesn’t read the same as it did when they were closer to my contemporaries. On top […]
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My whole family did The Great Columbia Crossing!
This past weekend my entire immediate family gathered in Astoria for The Great Columbia Crossing, a 10k race across the Astoria-Megler bridge. Altogether there were 16 of us, including my parents, siblings, siblings-in-law, and nephews. The actual race event was fun, and every one of us managed to finish (despite one person being post-surgery, one […]
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The start of Inktober
Inktober2018 completely snuck up on me. I didn’t plan anything, I hadn’t reviewed the prompts… it was just suddenly there. For anyone unfamiliar, Inktober is a push to get people out and drawing in ink. There are prompts for each day, and artists are encouraged to create and share drawings daily. I participated last year […]
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Music is a wonderful escape.
The world is in a weird place right. Well, I guess the world always is, but American politics especially are wonky. It’s been stressing me out, like, a lot, as I’m sure it has a lot of you. Anyways, I found a great escape this morning: I sat down with GarageBand and YouTube and learned […]
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Our trip to Seattle
We had a great mini-vacation up to Seattle last week, during which I did a terrible job of keeping track of what we did. I’m still feeling pretty exhausted, so rather than try to write poetically about our trip, I’m just going to list out as much as I can remember… In the words of […]
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