Revelry Reverie

Stark’s “the outside is overwhelming!” face is all of our resting corona face by now.

I stared into the abyss and the abyss stared back.

Today our top pupil graduated in a small intimate ceremony. His achievements include advanced wayfinding, complex geometry, and mousing. While we at the academy are all very proud, I do worry that our standards have fallen shockingly low.

My husband and I are sharing an “office” — we took an unused nook in our attic bedroom and repurposed it with a very uneven plastic folding table, and my old office chair. My set-up is closest to the window, and his is closer to the camera. We work at different times, so we only…

We are riding bikes at an empty park.

I took my best girl on a lunch date today. She chose the brownie and a side salad, with a deluxe hot chocolate. Before we left, Bob asked that we bring him back a decaf Americano. As we were eating, a server asked if we needed anything and Ele reminded me to order dad’s “American…

The next leg of our trip took us from Yosemite out to the coast. We took a fairly direct route, and ended up at Pismo Beach, where we went to a little joint called Chipwrecked, which I was disappointed with. But I loved being back on the coast. I got an almond milk latte which…

“The snow is melting into music.” John Muir We spent two nights in Yosemite, and it was not enough. We had glorious weather, that begged we stay outside, so we did. We arrived in the early afternoon, and parked across the meadow from Yosemite Falls. We ate our lunch gazing across the dormant grasses at…

We drove out of San Francisco early and after driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, we quickly exited to get to Marin Headlands. The views were amazing! After a little running around there, we had to hustle to Muir Woods, because we had a reservation for parking. In the woods we went for a hike.…