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Journaling is Alchemy

While I was away on my big summer trip - more on that later - I decided to get back to my daily journaling habit. When we travel and I've got some time (or anxious energy) on my hands, I usually turn to knitting or maybe embroidery but

9 Ways to Make Your Temprory Renters Love You

I first posted this list in April, 2019 when we were on a trip to the Dordogne in France. I'm currently on a train from Germany to the Netherlands and realized it's a good time to re-post this as the list still stands, years later. Original

Book Wrap - May, June, and July 2025

Things have been busy so I'm rather behind in posting book wrap-ups, having last posted an April report. Because I have so much to catch up, we'll be doing things a little differently this time, focusing on how I rated each with some information on the

Resting Purposefully

I've been away for awhile, mostly as a way to buy back some time in my life where I can ignore the go-go-go of things for a bit. Work and family and life are stressful right now, and not just because it's summer.In her weekly

Rethinking the Stars

I've been rating books on Story Graph since the start of 2023 and I've realized something - despite the fact I feel like I've read literally hundreds of books - my average rating of a book I've finished is rather high. What&

April 2025 Book Roundup

Hello, bookish friends. It's time for another book roundup! This month, I actually read a physical book for the first time in months. What a concept! As always, if you go to my 2025 Reading List on Bookshop.Org and buy something, I'll get some sort

Leese Loose in France - Part 4

Our last few days in France were spent getting to and hanging out in the French Riviera. April 17 Antibes After we grabbed some breakfast and packed up the car, we drove the two and a half or so hours to Antibes. The city is on the coast so very

Leeses Loose in France - Part 3

It's a rainy Saturday afternoon which is really reminding me of our time in France. Like when we were there, we didn't let the rain stop us - we went to the local farmer's market then got a few things from Home Depot. But

Leeses Loose in France - Part 2

Welcome back to the second of, I don't know, five posts about our trip to France. I'm currently sitting at a table at the Lagkagehuset cafe in terminal C of the Copenhagen airport. Lizzy's here with me, playing Roblox, as we wait to board

Leeses Loose in France - Part 1

Greetings from our rental apartment in St. Remy-en-Provence. Lizzy and Matt are off doing their own thing, so I figured I my as well start writing blog posts about the trip as I've got my laptop with me and, unlike my phone, it manages to stay on the

March Book Roundup

I'm a bit late getting to my monthly book roundup because, well, life happened. You'll notice I've been away for a few weeks while waiting for work to settle, evaluating what I need to say no to in my life, and dealing with some

Coworker Sign Project

A project in which I become the decorator of cubicles in a bland government building. Puns and nerdiness abound.

Why I Started

Why'd I decide to start a blog? Sure wasn't to be famous...

February 2025 Book Roundup

As I wrote about in my 25 in 2025 post, February was my month to focus on reading books by Black authors. I sought out authors writing fantasy and romance as I needed to escape from the insanity that is life right now. I didn't read exclusively Black

25 in 2025

For the last few years, I've created a list of goals big and small that I want to complete that year. Borrowing from Gretchen Rubin, I've used the last two digits of the year as the number of goals on my list. I will admit I

Chillin' with Some Guy Named Chuck

When I was in twelfth grade, I got to meet Chuck Yeager. And I had no idea it was him. Because, while I really am a detail person, I can be pretty unobservant. It was at the 2003 FIRST Robotics Competition Championship (though, then, I think we called it Nationals

She's Not Here Anymore

I've thought about my grandmother a lot recently as she grew up outside Philly and I've got a ton of coworkers from there who can't stop saying "Go Birds!" and talking Philly baseball. What follows is a repost from an old blog

January 2025 Book Roundup

I’m a big consumer of books. I’ve got memberships to Libro.fm and Kobo Plus and love my local library’s Libby offerings. I always buy a couple books when we go to library or church book sales. I sometimes buy books from big box stores. I can

Online Purchase Sharing Time: Book Bundler

I often turn to buying things I see on the Internet as a way to distract myself from the horrors of life. (Also eating sweets but this list isn’t about that.) I’ll see an ad somewhere, like what I see, and add things to my cart. Then I

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Angela here. The anxious. The analytical..when the anxiety isn‘t too much. I’ll be back soon with a better introduction but this site is a shiny new toy that I must play with.