by Mir | Sep 26, 2025 | Health is overrated, Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
When I last updated you on the kids and the Great Northern Migration, it appeared that everything was more or less in order. To recap: Sunny was headed to grad school just north of BlueCity, and the girls had secured an apartment and scheduled their move (with the...
by Mir | Jul 8, 2025 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, What do I do all day?
I am so tired of our embarrassment of a country and the casual cruelty that has somehow become not just acceptable, but exciting to so many. I need a vacation from reality. Also, our air conditioner died. And it’s fine—it’s been replaced, and the new...
by Mir | Jun 27, 2025 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, What do I do all day?
It’s been exactly one month since I last updated (as I discovered by checking, just now; this was not on purpose), and Operation Yeet The Adult Children Northward is well underway. Chickadee—firstborn daughter with lifelong anxiety through and...
by Mir | May 27, 2025 | My name is Grumplestiltskin, Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Retail Therapy, Woohoo!
I don’t talk too much about the kids, here, anymore, on account of their being whole adults—not just, like, “okay, legally they’re adults,” but more like “they have retirement accounts with a corporate match” kind of adults....
by Mir | Apr 25, 2025 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Health is overrated, Oh look! Something furry!!
I really do keep intending to show up here more often, but I tend to underestimate the toll that existential dread takes on a person. (Or maybe not any person, but certainly on me.) I have half a dozen in-progress projects littered around the house, and nearly every...
