On August 14, 2024 my grandpa, Ronald Erickson, passed away peacefully at home. My grandma, his wife of 72 years was beside him. The...

Fragile. What is fragile? It is the word written on packages tossed around by the post office. It is what we use to describe things that...

My family has a tradition of eating artichokes on Thanksgiving, but it is not necessarily the consumption of them that is the important...

It’s already almost two weeks into 2022, as the days fly by I find myself thinking that I should have already figured out how to be a...

I’ve recently been playing a lot of Christmas carols on my flute, I know most of them by heart because I grew up singing them, Jingle...

I do want kids, the matter is a mixed bag of emotions in my chest, but logistics aside I can finally say with confidence that someday I...

I am terrified of being lazy. Or rather, of other people thinking I am lazy. This obsession started way back in middle school with the...

As children I’m sure most of us remember the saying “step on a crack break your mother’s back” always said in a sing-song voice despite...

We are all subject to mortality, like it or not every single one of us has this fate in common regardless of age/race/gender etc....

I recently made a sticker. It’s nothing fancy, there are thousands of other much higher quality and more professionally made stickers out...

I suppose I will begin with an explanation as to why I have chosen to title my blog in the current manner, not only for those reading,...