Big day today: he went into his crate by himself to nap!
Category: Acclimating and Adjusting
Riley is a 9-week old rescue I adopted on Wednesday. He’s already changing my life.
I was looking forward to blending into the background, like normal, at LexThink. There’s a line about people planning and God laughing that comes to mind, and I’d wager He’s ROFL at this. I’m now presenting. Armed with 20 slides…
So far, the list of snafus for moving from Vancouver to Chicago is smaller than the list from Chicago to Vancouver. Some things, though, are on both lists. Banking I knew I had to setup a different bank account in…
I woke up this morning to the wind whistling through the siding of my parents house instead of rain drops going pitter-patter against the windows of the house I shared with my three good friends. I'm back in Chicago! Seems…
Meeting new people almost always results in asking how long I’ve been here. I’ve generally said “since January 2011.” That’s the first time I went through the Resident line for Customs instead of the Visitors line. Except my visa says…
It’s simple enough. Whole milk is red. 2% is a navy/dark blue. 1% is purplish. Skim is light/sky blue. In the States. In Canada, skim milk is navy/dark blue. When you’ve condition yourself to the new milk color coding scheme,…
Orcas! I saw them! In the wild! Remember how I was trying to figure out how to use 20 vacation days this year? The best I could do was 10, the week at the writer’s retreat and the following week…
Last year was an adventure in river rafting. This year? A golf tournament. Rather glad I hauled my clubs from Chicago when I came back after the New Year. Lefty clubs are hard enough to find. Female lefty clubs are…
And back to blogging, though I didn’t realize it has been a month since my last blog post. I recently returned from a wonderful, real, two-week vacation. The first week was spent at UW-Madison at the Writer-by-the-Lake retreat. I took…