Ollie Indogpendence Day Yesterday was Independence Day (happy birthday, America. Sorry your party sucked.) Normally we throw a Fourth of July party where all of our friends come over and lick their hands
knitting Skylar Looks Good In Sweaters A couple months ago I called my knitting store down the street #supportlocal #citizenoftheyear #It'sScaryToTalkOnThePhone #bravery. I had picked a new sweater to knit, something that would be
Essays The Mayan I was in high school when the massive Jordan Commons complex sprouted off of State Street in Sandy.
Ridiculous Paintings. Now None of You Can Go to College. Last year Skylar and I went to Santa Barbara for a quick vacation so he could have a break from medical school. We ended up driving a bit out of
Ridiculous Q&A with Tami A while ago Tami did a Q&A on the Stranger Facebook page (for those unfamiliar because you haven't yet caught up on a decade's
Medical School Zoom This morning I heard Skylar in the other room on a Zoom call with a bunch of people from school. I had slipped into the room a few times while
Medical School Quite A Lot Of Pressure Skylar is supposed to get his test scores any day now and I simultaneously need it to happen immediately and not for a while. He is antsy and it is
Emily Sand Dunes Skylar finished his test a week ago yesterday and listeners, I now have a husband with too much time on his hands. Remember last week when I wrote to you
Ridiculous Do I Believe In Magic? I think I might be losing my mind. Is this a safe space? Can I say something here about myself that might be embarrassing? I . . . have always believed in hypnosis.
Ollie The Thing About 2020 I have two friends who tested positive for the Rona recently. I won't say their names here because of HIPPO or whatever. I don't know. I
Medical School Micromanager Happy weekend, one and all. It's Thursday afternoon but NewYearNewMe so I'm going to start considering Thursdays part of the weekend. And maybe Wednesdays. And entire
Essays Not Knowing What Else To Do In late September of 2001, just a couple of weeks after the 9/11 attacks, I was sent a mass email with the full text of an article from The
Strangerville Around the Campfire, With You Obviously it's been a rough week in the U.S. I've spent the last couple of days writing something about all of it (and stewing over
Ridiculous Camera Butt Doctors Skylar's big test that he's been studying for since before the war is at the end of next week. It's called "Step 1&
Ridiculous Learning to Fail You know what's not ok? THIS: I think he's just doing it to spite me now. I started screaming last week when I saw it because
The Beehive So I Guess I'm Vegan Now In 2019 I decided I was going to try to eat less meat because I was basically personally responsible for the slaughter of millions of animals each year and I
Social Distancing Apple Watch Tomorrow is my birthday, which you all know because of the outrageous celebrations you have planned. We decided to carve out some time for it on Saturday, even though my
Ridiculous The Lost Journal Series Part XIV I just realized it's been a few years since I gave you a Lost Journal Series entry. I last left off in 1995. It's frankly getting
Work A Time a Lawyer Taught Me Something Over the weekend I shared a story on Twitter about an experience I had early in my career with an opposing attorney. Here's the Tweet thread. > People
Ridiculous My Borsch Recipe None Of You Asked For, Which Was Rude. Eleventy hundred years ago I wrote a post sharing my borsch recipe and periodically people will email me to say that they used it to make borsch themselves and I
House Our Mountain Vineyard My husband has decided to turn our backyard into a vineyard. I found out about this when I overheard him asking Matt if he could borrow several power tools, which
Essays An Unsettling Chance To Breathe Three years ago during a particularly stressful few months with my job I got a little dog from a small rescue organization.
Yahoo Answers Yahoo! Answers XV I've been collecting a new batch for you. Here are questions I've asked over the past few months, with some selected responses, before the Yahoo! gods
Running What Has Been Your Best Coping Mechanism of Late? I've been going on very long runs every weekend for about a year. I started these for my "Year of Health" in 2019, and then noticed
Ridiculous Good Parents You all know that I have the cutest dog in all the land, right? Like, yours is cute, too, I'm sure. But mine is like the supermodel of
