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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I fell down concrete steps and rolled into it and came back on my feet relatively unscathed.

    I wasn’t paying attention walking along the sidewalk and tripped over a step. I tried to pull my other foot forward to catch myself, and that foot got hung up on the step too.

    I ended up doing a forward roll and landed on my feet.

    I had been taking karate classes with my kids, but I didn’t know I actually learned anything.

    A while later I saw they had put large concrete planters next to the step, so I don’t think I was the only one to trip.


  • Many years ago I was painting stars on a bedroom ceiling for my oldest’s third birthday. I had been running the ceiling fan in the room for all the other painting to help it dry faster, and it didn’t occur to me that running the fan while I was on a ladder painting stars on the ceiling wasn’t a good idea.

    To be fair, I got most of them done before it went bad.

    The ceiling fan hit me in the head, and I heard a stadium crowd cheering the home run as I flew off the ladder and landed on my back.

    I managed to get a bruise that went around the front of my head. It looked like my skull had flexed.

    I decided I had painted enough that day.




  • Too many people forget that at the end of the day, if we’re willing to do what it takes, the U.S. is still a democracy and votes are what choose our leaders. Lots of problems and lots of obstacles, but the people saying that voting doesn’t matter are lying to themselves if not to everyone else.

    It’s a lie that only benefits the people who don’t want us to vote. If they put that much effort into the lie, it proves that voting matters enough for them to try to stop it.