Listening to Nick Offerman read “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” while painting the dining room and never cease to be amazed by Mark Twain’s ability to have me laughing and crying in the span of a few minutes as he tackles heavy topics in a ridiculous setting.

Where am I on the holiday exhaustion spectrum? I’m at “order Taco Bell to be delivered.”

What’s the feeling called when you’re thrilled to complete your final for a class and also a little disappointed that the class is over? It’s an entirely new feeling for me.

One of the saddest things about adulthood is knowing, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Jude Law and Cameron Diaz will absolutely breakup at some point (soon) after the end of The Holiday.

Are you even a parent if your preferred method of eating mac and cheese isn’t straight from the pot while standing in front of the stove?

Rarely have I felt so seen by a shirt.

Just baked my second batch of miso walnut double-thick chocolate-chip cookies from Nicola Lamb’s wonderful cookbook, Sift, and no cookie has any business being so delicious.

History haunts him who does not honour it.

- Daniel Mason, North Woods

Few things are more tortuous for an enneagram 5 than your young child wanting to play the game “pretend you don’t know things.”

Few things bring me as much joy as calculating all of the butter and cream needed for my Thanksgiving baking.

Amazing how many things you can get done in a day and yet, somehow, a shower seems like an impossible task.

While I’m not always into villain origin stories, I’d love to know the backstory and eventual fate of Sid from Toy Story after the events of the first movie.

That’s going to change a person.

Sometimes it seems too on the nose that I’m taking a class entitled The Ancient Roman World this semester when all of *this* is happening around us.

Delighted to see that Aesop products aren’t on sale or discounted, but experience a “rare price reduction.”

The brand is strong.

We talk a lot about political enemies and retribution these days, but Shapur I, leader of the Sasanian Empire, captured the Roman emperor Valerian and made him serve the rest of his life as a foot-stool whenever Shapur wanted to mount his horse.

That doesn’t get talked about enough.

Very curious to see if this will be Twitter (RIP) enough to distract me from all of the studying I should currently be doing.