by Kristina | Jul 11, 2019 | Advice, Life
We’re swapping the canopy off the truck again because we want the silver one, no the white one, no actually the silver one is better let’s put that back on. I am helping my spouse move this big, heavy, hulking behemoth because all of our really strong friends...
by Kristina | Apr 25, 2019 | Advice
Pink, round, and bearing the Mini Mouse insignia along each arm, I got my first pair of glasses in the first grade. I said goodbye to any social status I enjoyed and joined the crew of “unpopulars”. I dealt with it as best as any 6-year old can, but...
by Kristina | Apr 11, 2019 | Advice, Life
The sunlight warms the pasty skin beneath my toenails as I feel my toe-hairs rustle gently in the springtime breeze. After many months trapped inside closed-toed, sock-stuffed, freedom-restricting shoes, my feet are released, yet again, into the world. It’s a sunny...
by Kristina | Apr 4, 2019 | Advice, Camping
We’d driven the parking loop not once, but twice. Visiting Mt. Saint Helens for the first time this season, the Sippel Sisters and I were looking for a perfectly level, sunny spot to camp. After deciding no such unicorn existed, we chose a primo location nearish...
by Kristina | Mar 28, 2019 | Advice, Travel
The shrieking outbursts are so loud you need heavy-grade ear protection to walk down the street. People had warned me the dogs were loud, but I was woefully underprepared for the volume of their exuberance. Standing in the staging area at the 2019 Iditarod, watching...
by Kristina | Mar 7, 2019 | Advice, How To
With a snort, the single coagulated snot ball exits your nostril in a perfect arc over your right shoulder. It’s cold and your nose is like a sieve that just won’t stop. You’ve been sniffing at this thing for hours with no relief, and you’re without a handy hanky....
