Nothing Gold Can Stay

CC BY-NC-ND Flickr user Geekr Last night was the first significant snow fall of the year for Michigan, which–while it was all winter wonderland up in hur–really had me grieving for autumn. For winter has most definitely arrived. If, by chance, you are grieving too… Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.… Continue reading Nothing Gold Can Stay

Awesome Eats // 2 Step Crockpot Chili

Chili is the quintessential autumn food, is it not?  Warm, hearty, spicy–I love it to DEF.  Mmmmmnomnomnomnom!  It’ funny because once upon a time, I hated chili.  My mother would make it for dinner and I would require a separate meal.  She was so good to me.  Now chili is firmly in the things-I-used-to-hate-but-now-love category,… Continue reading Awesome Eats // 2 Step Crockpot Chili

On Friends and Loneliness

Do you read Penelope Trunk?  Because you should.  It’s funny though, as a “career expert” she does very little writing that is explicitly about careers.  It all relates to careers somehow, but she mostly just writes about things we don’t want to acknowledge about ourselves and about life.  Like how you shouldn’t do what you… Continue reading On Friends and Loneliness

Come Play With Me

CC BY-NC Flickr user peroshenka Woohoo!  Welcome to November!  I don’t know about you, but I am SHOCKED that we are a scant 2 months away from 2012.  Let’s hope that whole 2012 being the end of the world thing is a bunch of bull mess or it’ll be here before we know it. Autumn… Continue reading Come Play With Me