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off-season
Steering some of the off-season crew on a Saturday morning paddle. Winter is “off-season” for outrigger canoeing, so my team doesn’t practice regularly. It is a much less-desirable time of year for...
View Articlea small list of advice for getting through a divorce
A few friends have recently asked me for advice about getting through the tough few initial weeks of a divorce. My advice to them, based on what I did well during my first few weeks separated from my...
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moving right along…*
Photo taken of the grapevines on the front fence of our current home. I’m sad to know that we’ll be leaving these behind, but the new house has a huge avocado tree, orange tree, and a well-developed...
View Article31st anniversary
Today was the anniversary of the day that I was diagnosed with bone cancer, probably the single worst day of my life. It’s generally a tough one for me, although some years are better than others....
View Articlereturning
A view of the veggies #inthegarden #theresnoplacelikehome A photo posted by @janaremy on Jul 5, 2015 at 7:02pm PDT It seems a season of returns, for me. I just barely returned to work after having to...
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When “the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time…”
A favorite tea (which always reminds me of my friend Sara, who first introduced me to Kusmi) Recently my office moved and I acquired a new set of colleagues, as well as gaining a new set of IT-related...
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It’s a Known Issue
We just barely saw the sun through the clouds as it slipped into the horizon. “I need some ocean air” I texted to him, as I was packing up to leave work. So I drove towards Newport Beach, picked him...
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for the big ones
I’ve had a few zucchini piled up on the counter that I haven’t been sure what to do with. They aren’t the young tender ones that taste great in zucchini carpaccio (which, btw, I make sans goat cheese...
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learning about digital humanities, from the inside
For a long time I’ve been thinking how helpful it would be to have some of the expertise of my colleagues in IS&T, in my Digital Humanities course. At a conference I’d heard about the benefits of...
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the sound of silence…
The laryngitis hit a few days ago and doesn’t seem eager to leave. So now I must be silent and let my voicebox rest and heal. In the meantime, I am missing calling Ellycat in from the back porch,...
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Resolutions, 2016
Feeling pensive today as I reflect on the past year and consider my intentions for the future. So as part of that I spent some time looking through my blogposts from the past year and weighing how...
View ArticleMy Year in IT: On moving to a cubicle
This is the first post in a series about My Year in IT. Last year I moved from my central campus office-with-a-window to a cubicle in our IT building. In preparation for the move my academic books...
View ArticleMy Year in IT: keeping a sense of humor
A post in the series My Year in IT For me, working in IT has required a healthy sense of humor. There is the easy, obvious humor that comes from working in an environment that is straight out of an...
View ArticleMy Year in IT: Certified
The language, mores, and workflows of IT aren’t all that different from what occurs in other areas of the campus, but it felt important to me that while I was in IT this year that I become adept at...
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Blogging Nostalgia
Am I the only one who misses that era of about 2008ish where everyone had a blog and part of the day’s ritual was to read all of your friends’ recent posts? Every once in awhile I peruse the lists of...
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#inthegarden
The past few weeks I’ve been fairly contemplative about where I am in my life. I passed a milestone birthday and I marked the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis (or rather, I didn’t mark it at all...
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short shameful confession #29
When I was a kid (around the time that I was reading The Mixed of Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler), it was my dream to someday hide out in a library after hours, perhaps snoozing among the stacks...
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hijinks at #theoffice
I’m heading into the home stretch of my year in IT, and am enjoying a bit of extra attention from my colleagues as a result: The post hijinks at #theoffice appeared first on PilgrimSteps.
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a hungry heart
From Mary Oliver: “We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.” This reminds me of something that my ex...
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bargains with myself
I sometimes make small bargains with myself to keep focused on the things that are important to me (and to reign in my time-wasters). One such bargain is that I often set is that I won’t peer into...
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