Barbershop: Year Two
I can’t believe another year has passed! I wasn’t planning on writing a post for this second year, but a fair number of ‘firsts’ happened, so I thought it might be worth documenting.
One year in barbershop
Heads up: this blog post will be a bit all over the place. It’s much more the synthesis of a collection of thoughts around a temporal location (i.e. – a diary/log) than around a topic (i.e. – an essay). To that end, I’ll put things in bite-sized categories with headings. It’s not my favorite format, but that’s life sometimes!
Thoughts from my first barbershop competition
This weekend was my first barbershop competition: the Northeast District contest in Windham, NH. It was a really great experience; the “competing” part went by too quickly to notice, but the 2-day-long show was fantastic! I’m capturing my thoughts on the experience here.
Ten years of books (2012-2021)
Trigger warning: excessive charts and graphs I’ve always been drawn to the “quantified self” movement. Of course, being attracted to an idea has never once given me the discipline to actually implement that idea. Goodreads, however, has been a notable exception. I began consistently logging my reading sometime in 2011...
Sequestration (week 14): Schools’ out for summah!
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 95: visiting the Farmer’s Daughter for a summer’s worth of planting No hands! Day 97: looking through Liam’s 2nd grade desk cleanout Day 98: What?! There’s a Super Nature Fan Club?!?!!!! PINS!!!!!! Thanks Uncle...
Sequestration (week 13)
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 88: first social distance gathering! Blowing up a new toy Go ahead kid; make a mess with paints! Day 89: maybe we’ll hate homeschooling less from this couch? Day 90: topsy turvy! “Am… am...
Sequestration (week 12)
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 86: So. Over. Zoom. Meetings. “This is how mad meetings make me.” Meanwhile, in downtown Providence… Day 87: Got some chairs in preparation for social-distance-y outdoor gatherings with Grandy and Ellen Liam preps a...
Sequestration (week 11)
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 74: Mystic Aquarium is partially open! These were the thirstiest whales on Earth Sea lions Day 75: Second wild goose chase Success! Liam treading in my favorite lake Day 76: Updating our travel log...
Sequestration (week 10)
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 68: Just a whole long week of lazy mornings Even these two are too lazy to fight! Friendliest Canada geese ever … a little too friendly Face-sized potato chip! Day 69: Impromptu roadtrip to...
Sequestration (week 9)
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 60: Helping Taako out with his dungeoneering Mother’s day Facetime with Grandi Letting the girls loose Mother’s day butterfly snuggles with Mommy Day 61: Good morning Monday! Talk about “work life balance!” (… I’ll...