I like to consider myself a pretty handy guy. In fact, just a few weeks ago, the dryer absolutely stopped working and I was able to take the whole thing apart, figure out the issue, order a couple of new parts, and within a week had the thing back up and running, with less than…

At the time you’re reading this, I’m well past the moment I actually sat back to write this little thing. But, I feel that I need to make you aware of this incredibly weird and special thing that happened suddenly (especially since we’ve now opened the bakery). Something that I know my wife at this…

With my luck, it just so happened that the weekend we opened the bakery coincided with the time of year in which we skip an entire hour of the weekend, meaning that I was already exhausted from just running everywhere in order to make sure the bakery was running as it needed (including fulfilling my…

Well, it’s Sprinter in Wisconsin. That means we can go from sub-zero temperatures with the wind chill to balmy 60 degree days in the course of 12 hours. That means that although yesterday I was outside without a jacket, today snow is filling the air. Wisconsin is ridiculous. I remember first telling people about how…

Hey, if you happen to know my wife, you should 100% send her a message of love today, because it’s her birthday! And because…well, I’ve failed her a bit today… She’s had a pretty wild time of it lately, because even though the bakery has been her dream for as long as I’ve known her,…

Every morning during the cold months, I find myself sitting in a long line of cars, with my daughter in the passenger seat, as we wait to get to the drop off location for school. And then, after she gets out, I wait an even longer amount of time, just to be able to actually…

We are now 2 years out from day 3 of what I had been referring to as The Great Human Hunkering, a crazy period in which we, as a nation decided to close up shop for a couple months in order to ‘flatten the curve’. Okay, so, yeah, obviously “we” didn’t decide, those in power…

Oh crap, another school-related post! I am 8 days away from the end of my term, meaning 8 days away from being a graduate, meaning 8 days until I can stop checking my school email on the regular to see if my grades have all come in (I’m down to three left). And I’m also…

After World War I, Warren Harding used the phrase, “Return to Normalcy” as his slogan for election. I’ve always really liked this phrase, and not just because of how it has long caused scholars to debate whether or not the word actually existed prior to this point. There are many moments through history were the…

I’ve been a little hesitant to spend much time thinking about the current situation in the Ukraine. Not that I don’t care. It’s a big deal. War is always a big deal, and it feels like the world is always at war, even if we haven’t officially had a world war since the 40s. And…