Let me just preface this post by saying that I’m not a fan of AI. Mostly because I spent too much of my formative years watching Terminator movies, but also because I don’t like that the AI is trained with the hard work of others, be it art or books or whatever. Also, I just read an article about how…
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A collection of the random shit I’ve downloaded to my phone over the past few weeks.
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Meet Bailey, or as I call him, Mr. Bailey-boo. We adopted him yesterday. He’s an Australian Cattle Dog mix and he has those deep, soulful eyes that instantly drew me to him. I first met Bailey back in April. I was attending the Romance in CNY con in Utica with an author friend of mine (she’s great, check out her…
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A couple of weekends ago I made a quick trip to the mountains of North Carolina to see my baby brother get married. It was a very small ceremony on the literal top of a mountain. Like, five miles of switchbacks to get to the top, and the last mile was gravel road. My rental car was displeased, but she…
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It’s National Spelling Bee week, which has me strolling back down memory lane to the five years that Griffin spent demonstrating his orthographic excellence. The Spelling Bee was a big deal in our house during Griffin’s fourth through eighth grade years. He had proven himself to be an excellent speller in third grade, with his teacher providing him with special…
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If you’re a subscriber to this blog, I would like to apologize to you for the insane amount of email notifications you received today. I was reactivating a bunch of old posts that I had archived, and I had no idea that WordPress would treat them like new posts and send you notifications for each and every one. Also, I…
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After a little time back at our hotel to recover from our Appalachian Trail adventures, we took a short drive to the Monocacy National Battlefield. When we had first been creating our itinerary for this trip and I mentioned this battlefield to my history nerd husband, he was perplexed. He had never heard of this battle, and was surprised that…
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On Monday we got up and on the road early, because we needed to complete a particular mission before the heat of the day descended upon us. That mission: to cross off the longest-standing item on my personal bucket list – hike the Appalachian Trail. Now let’s not get too excited yet. The hike was a modest one at best.…
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After leaving Antietam we went back to our hotel to recover from the heat for a little bit, and then decided to head back out and do some exploring around the area that didn’t involve National Park sites. I had been wandering around Google for things to do in the Frederick, MD area and discovered there was a little covered…
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After leaving Gettysburg, we hopped over to Antietam National Battlefield. It was our first time visiting, and we found it to be much more our speed; smaller, quieter, less people-y. We started at the newly-renovated Visitor Center. It’s small but has a nice little store and the usual friendly staff. We got there in time to be a part of…
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It was another beautiful yet brutally hot day for the second day of our trip. We got up bright and early and made our way to Gettysburg National Military Park. Now I’m going to be honest, we didn’t spend a lot of time here because we’ve been here a couple of times before and didn’t feel the need to explore…
