In the course of rediscovering Pokémon cards last month, I made one other fascinating discovery: There’s a new Digimon card game, which came stateside as recently as this January. 😮 Y’ALL. Y’ALL. Preteen me might have liked Pokémon, but when it came to Digimon, she was a straight-up obsessed nerd (like, even more so than […]
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Adventures in Card Collecting, Part 1 – Pokémon
Several weeks ago, Jacob made the fateful choice to show me a random article about the insane state of today’s Pokemon card scene. Little did he know what monsters he was about to awaken. 😁 (Yes, plural.) I’ve been a Pokémon fan since age 12, when the series and associated games first started coming to […]
Adventures in Dirt
Recently I was at my local Chick-fil-A, on my way to grab some sweet, holy writing protein, when I saw a dirt pile from the drive-thru line. This was not just any dirt pile. This was a grand 30-foot-tall mountain of sedimentary glory, and as I stared at it, an absolutely Pavlovian burst of happiness […]
Adventures in Mystery Pikachus
Y’ALL. There’s been a mystery brewing in our yard today. When I went to see Jacob off to work at The Real World Job, we spotted a weird item in our neighbor’s yard. We thought it was just a leaf bag, but checked it out anyway to find that it was a random Pikachu beanbag. […]
Adventures in Yard Life
There’s so much happening in my yard to distract me from writing today, y’all. FIRST, a Nova story. Nova gets to sit outside with me when I write because she’s generally well-behaved, doesn’t leave the porch, and doesn’t hunt. Outside cats can be a bane to songbird populations in particular, so I’ve always been glad […]
Adventures in Heart Health and Diets – The Sequel
Well, readers, it’s been a little over a year since chest pains sent me to the doctor on my 40th birthday. 😐 You can read all about that fun adventure here, but given that a recent cardiologist visit gave me some good news, I figured it was time for an update. The good news? I […]
Adventures in Heart Health and Diets
Well, H.P. and I expected this spring to be an exciting one, what with the release of The Gordian Protocol. What we didn’t expect was excitement in the form of spending my 40th birthday at the doctor with chest pains. Heart disease runs in my family (as it does in so many)—it’s one of the […]