Author: noemikjames
In praise of puentes
In Spain, when they have a random day off in the middle of the week, they unofficially take the days off between the official day off the and weekend. They call...
Pandemic Holiday Redux: The not happy to be here again edition
Remember how happy I was that I didn’t have to agonize over how we should spend Thanksgiving, or manage differing levels of risk aversion during a pandemi...
Fog on the water
It so disorienting to remember that we all have tomorrow off. Am I drinking tonight? Like I do on a weekend night? I’m still not sure… I made it to martial arts...
Tuesday Trifles
I find that I have longer, more substantive posts I want to write, but I just don’t have the time to write them. It’s busy this week because the tri...
Ridiculous Disconnects
For some reason, I spent all of last month thinking that it would be darker in the morning after the time changed. I knew it would get darker earlier in the aft...
Land’s End
We went for a walk at Land’s End today. The weather was beautiful and it was nice to be outside. The views were icing on the cake. I don’t know why but I’m exha...
When what we love causes the stress
Today my son is testing for the third stripe on his blue belt. We have been working really hard at home to learn the form, and we have been going to extra class...
Friday Follow up
I’m having a follow up day at school – a day to get some stuff done so it doesn’t languish in their binders and hanging files. We’re fin...
Remaining objective when you’ve ingested the patriarchy’s Kool Aid
A couple weeks ago, my husband admitted that he was really struggling, and asked for support. He said he really unhappy, and that while there were many things c...