Just real quick: We didn't take a hiatus, we didn't abandon the plan or even the website. We tried a thing. We took a lap around the...

We've still been binge watching and cooking and reading, but we can't really call these quarantine kits anymore. Quarantining is over; we...

For real. What even is this election season? If it feels like the fate of the republic hangs in the balance that's because it does. If it...

Hey, so, yeah. It feels a little like 2022 is punching down. We're already beaten and bloodied and it comes out swinging? No, thank you....

We're coming up on the best day of the year: The day *after* the winter solstice when all days start getting longer. We'll be celebrating...

We'll admit it: We were unfamiliar with Repeal Day. Here's the upshot: Turns out, our collective historical memory lays blame for...

Last year we admonished, well, everyone, to stay home. We wrote, "Whatever it is you think you *have* to do this Thanksgiving, you do...

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Feels like that's the official motto of the world in COVID. And writ large. And on...

Question: How is it possible that there is a debate about whether or not childcare is infrastructure? We're sort of stumped that this is...

Did you know that May Day started as a Celtic festival called Beltane? Here's a deeper look at exactly why: Which is how it came to be...

It is coming on the end of April. It is coming on the end of quarantine. It is coming on the beginning of something else entirely. Maybe?...

We got some nice feedback about the last quarantine kit. Reader, we appreciate it *very much* when you weigh in. Also, we got some...

Maybe the last quarantine kit? Because, here's hoping you have been vaxxed. Had your shots, stayed cloistered for the requisite two weeks...

2020, believe it or not, was for optimism (in the face of uncertainty). For possibility (because no one knew what might happen). For...

Now's the time that the light is coming back (or, so they say, it is pretty graybird and snow-globe-y outside right now so it feels like...

Electors are meeting and voting for the next President of the United States as we speak. Do you have questions? Are they things like: Why...

First things first, how's your health? And how's your mental health? You hanging in? Or hanging on? In the best of times, Wyoming is thin...

First, you're at home, right?? You're not in an airport or recently arriving from an airport or welcoming people who came from an...

Offered without commentary. Essays/Poems "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women." by Anne Helen Petersen How Racial...

Raise your hand if you slept through the night! Yeah, we didn't think so. 2020 has been a miracle of time: Both lightning fast and...