by stephpaigek | Oct 25, 2023 | blog
Yesterday I learned about Prince Rupert’s Drops for the first time. I don’t know what took so long except that I’m into Biology, not Physics. My Physics professor would attest to this. Thanks to my cousins Clint and Andrew, I’m no longer ignorant of...
by stephpaigek | Oct 9, 2023 | blog
I’ve been doing an arm workout that involves holding them out at shoulder height for four hours. Not really. It only feels like four hours because of the burning in my shoulders after the first ninety seconds. It’s only seven minutes total, and they’re the longest...
by stephpaigek | Sep 22, 2023 | blog
Yesterday my husband asked me to re-hem his suit pants. It’s an easy enough task on the sewing machine, but it wasn’t cooperating. The thread became such a tangled mess that what should have been a ten-minute repair turned into over an hour of troubleshooting, trying...
by stephpaigek | Sep 6, 2023 | blog
I read that humans need to experience positive feelings three times as often as negative feelings to maintain a positive mood. I would counter that for writers that ratio might be much higher. Exposing my written words to public scrutiny is worse than dreaming about...
by stephpaigek | Aug 29, 2023 | blog
In 2020, we got a new puppy about six weeks before the dark time when all there was to do was sit through Zoom meetings and walk our dogs seventeen times a day. Back then, I wrote about how my stubborn puppy refused to walk if anyone but her was holding her leash....
