A Week of Winter Outfits; One Hundred and One Weeks In

When you were a kid, did you have paper dolls or Barbies or those Mattel Fashion Plates? I sure did and I loved them immoderately. I loved the idea of different clothes for different activities; I loved putting together the outfits and imagining what … [Continue reading]

Valentines and Galentines; One Hundred Weeks In

Tomorrow is the big day, everyone! It's Half-Price Heart-Shaped Chocolate Day! I think I might pop out for a box of Ferraro Roche to take to my Thursday class, as they put up with my very dumb "archaeologists discovered a mummy covered in nuts and … [Continue reading]

Fun In Your Forties; Ninety-Nine Weeks In

Ninety-nine! I've got ninety-nine problems, but Covid isn't one, yet. Doesn't it feel like a ticking time bomb, though? In the first four waves, I knew only a handful of people who had gotten sick; now it feels like I know only a handful of people … [Continue reading]

A January Roller Coaster; Ninety-Eight Weeks In

Tomorrow is February! I simultaneously feel like it's February, whee, already! and also that New Year's was several months ago. I'm looking at the calendar, and the first of the month, with the taking down of the tree and the Fresh Start of New … [Continue reading]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Hygge-Chaka, Hygge-Hygge-Hygge-Chaka Edition

I can't stop this feeling, deep inside of me, January you just don't realize what you do to me...when you are cold but it's getting more light you let me know everything's all right... Ever since I read The Little Book of Hygge, I've been a bit … [Continue reading]

Challenging?; Ninety-Seven Weeks In

Recently I've seen a lot of "ten year challenge" posts on social media, which is one of those strange phenomena of our time. A challenge, in my mind, is to be ninety-seven weeks into a global pandemic and to still get out of bed every morning, … [Continue reading]

Goals, Goals, Goals; Ninety-Six Weeks In

If you're not singing that title a la Motley Crue, then I don't know what to say. If you are, sorry/ not sorry for the earworm. As I've mentioned before, I don't set particular goals or resolutions or words-of-the-year in January, but I do like to … [Continue reading]