Today, your mom showed me your bedroom water bowl. It has officially dried up. We last filled it for you on July 20th, right before we started sleeping on the couch because you were in so much pain and needed to be held. We haven’t slept in the bedroom since. It’s not the same without you. I’m afraid to go back to...

📚 Book 19 of 2026 - Finished (8/19): The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (4/5⭐) I've been really careful about the books I choose to read lately since I'm still not in the right mental space to read anything too heavy. I'm not quite sure how I came upon this book, but I was wary that it might be another one...

I did a lot of blogging in August due to Blaugust, and for some reason it also meant that I shouted to the void quite a lot. I mostly stuck to omg.lol's Status log, where people couldn't reply or react to what I posted. Sometimes, it was nice to just shout something into the void without getting an echo back. I did...

Participating in Blaugust this year got me out of my cave. I haven’t really written in quite some time, for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to push myself to start again this month. I din’t have a goal, at least not one that I said (or wrote) out loud. Knowing myself, deep down I wanted to write 31 posts, but I...

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A super social day for this little introvert heart. I checked off a few firsts today, including riding the ferry and Muni. We spent some time strolling through the farmer's market before meeting up with friends at the Giants game. I finally got myself an SF Giants hat1, and LC bought me dachshund earrings -- another...

Today was a busy day. It was spent running a 10K, getting a Thai & Swedish couple's massage1 with LC, eating at a mediocre Cajun boil restaurant, and grabbing ice cream at one of my new favorite spots. We ended the day with a little bit of shopping. Overall, it was a great, yet exhausting, way to spend our day off....

Today marks one year since I was laid off from a role I had for over six years. I still remember exactly what I was doing when I received the dreaded email from someone I thought I could trust. No, just kidding. I knew he wasn't someone I could trust, but he certainly acted like he was. I was doing a Peloton class...

Today, I’m 38.Thirty-seven was a year that was. It was a year of loss. I found out I was being laid off the day after my birthday. Nearly a year later, I lost my soul dog. Between those two losses (and a million other things), I feel like I lost a part of myself1. I’ve thought a lot about mortality this year. At...

Four years into living in our house, and somehow it feels colder than it did before. I think it’s because we bought this house with Cocoa in mind. We wanted a safe neighborhood so we could take her out at 3AM and still feel safe1. We wanted grass for her. We wanted a backyard where she could lounge around. So much...

I had a best friend in middle school. Our birthdays are two days apart, except I’m a year older than her. For two days every year, we would joke that we were the same age. It was one of those silly little things that probably didn’t mean much to anyone else, but we made something of it between us. We stayed in touch...

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