The last day of 2022. I picked HEART as my word for this year. I didn’t know what it would mean to me, I never […]
New Year’s Poem
Every year I write a poem for work and read it at our last company meeting of the year. Here’s the poem I wrote this […]
DMing
I tried DMing for the first time tonight! That’s acting as a Dungeon Master for a Dungeons & Dragons session, aka facilitating the game for […]
Word of the Year Workshop
It’s almost that time again, choosing a new word of the year! I did my third annual workshop for my coworkers today on this subject. […]
Sleepover
There’s something so calming about from-birth best friends . . . and something so lucky that when they come home for the holidays they now […]
Winter Run
The winter storm lifts just enough to go for my first run in days. It’s still cold, the roads are icy, but the wind has […]
Christmas Day 2022
A calm and quiet Christmas Day, exactly what we needed I think. Just three of us, hanging out. We start with my mom’s ham and […]
Christmas Eve 2022
We’re warm, we’re mostly together, and we walk into Christmas at the easy pace we all prefer. Merry Christmas Eve! With Love, Natalie
Glass Onion
I watched Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery this evening with my folks — it premiered on Netflix today (after a weirdly brief stint in […]
Into the holiday weekend
Our first real winter storm blows in over Egg Harbor and over much of the country it seems. Snow piles up. Six inches. Eight. I […]