In March, I had to go to Chicago for a work conference and Erik came with (he is the BEST traveling companion!). While there, we were fortunate to be able to visit the Field Museum at an after-hours party hosted by one of the conference vendors. I had never been to the Field Museum before, but it’s one of those museums that is spoken of with awe in the museum community. They are known for…
I have written about notebooks before on my blog, specifically my calendar journals here and here. I’m surprised, however, that I’ve never discussed my three notebook system for writing and staying organized. At any given time, I always have three notebooks going. One is the aforementioned calendar journal, which contains enough space for me to jot the important happenings of each day of the year. I’ve been keeping a calendar journal for decades now, so…
This year (2026) marks my twentieth year blogging. My official anniversary is September 8, with my first blog post appearing on Filter & Splice, my Blogger blog, on that date in 2006. Honestly, it doesn’t feel that long. At the time, I was trying to blog almost every day because that was the way you were supposed to build a following online. It was a difficult schedule to keep up. I eventually moved to blogging…