Highlights from Ps & Q

 popoI've watched the daily number tick up in the past few months, so it's not like I wasn't aware of how long I have been writing this blog. But I have to admit, writing "Day 100" in today's headline felt pretty weird. But I thought I’d celebrate with this...

As I was about to make dinner, I looked up at my usual prep station in the kitchen and saw this.It is a lovely piece of undersea artwork that Amelia made for me earlier this year. She wanted to put it somewhere that I would see it and it would make me smile, so we...

Sunday was Father's Day, and I got to have a day doing what I long dreamed of. Literally nothing. It was fantastic. Erin and the kids spoiled me, I got to sleep in, and they surprised me with a super cool set of camping cookware, knives and other culinary devices for...

I've written plenty of times in this blog about the fact that we as a family are taking a very cautious approach to COVID. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about my own anxieties around the fact that more parts of society are starting to open up and more and more people...

This will sound shocking, but it's possible I have have partaken in a little bit of stress eating over the past few months. I know what you're thinking. "My god, man! What are you saying? Whatever for?!?" I know, I know. It's hard to believe anyone would want to stuff...

Hello dear reader! So I was well into writing an actual post about actual things, then got busy in a packed day of work and a nice evening of family time. It's now kind of late so I'm going to do the incredibly lame thing of basically eeking out a placeholder post.I'm...

On Wednesday, I had a phone appointment and a Zoom presentation, as well as the usual load of worky stuff. I also stepped into a bit of a tar pit first thing in the morning morning. In the course of the past few months, the blinds in the kids' rooms had both gone...

My brief post of yesterday feels like it's sliding into a brief post today, because once again it was feeling like I was pretty swallowed up. It's never one thing, per se. It's just amazing how packed each day has become lately.  Tuesday was a blur of conference...

Well, it took 92 days and I finally reached a mark I honestly thought I’d hit about 89 days ago: a day that I just couldn’t get around to writing much. While I am usually able to find a few tiny creases in the day...five minutes here, ten minutes...

On Sunday morning, Erin and I both woke up missing brunch. For the most part, eating in and doing the occasional delivery or carryout has been fine, but now and then one misses the full on experience of dining out. Brunch has always occupied a special place in our...