Reaching a milestone
Yesterday, I woke up to an email from the San Diego Community College District saying my application for graduation was reviewed, approved, and the degree awarded! Boom! I don’t need a cap-and-gown commencement ceremony to…
Category: City College
New Direction, New Look
When I started this website four years ago, I was pretty sure my mid-life reinvention would involve literature or medieval history. My concept, was to use this website to discuss books on my way toward…
Catch-up time!
Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. A lot has been going on, which means there’s a lot to catch up on. And, I’ve been very busy. I need to rewind to the end…
One step forward, one step … forward
With coronavirus infections continuing to rage out of control, I was wondering when the on-site field excavation class I was taking this spring was going to get canceled. Yesterday morning I got the email: field…
2020 Year End Review: A New Beginning
Pandemic aside, 2020 was a year of real progress for me in my pivot away from advertising and toward archaeology. Archaeology? This time last year it was Shakespeare/literature, and I was looking into master’s programs,…
Experimental Archaeology: Flint Knapping
I’d always thought flint knapping was really cool. As a kid, I tried breaking rocks with other rocks, leading to a variety of cuts, scrapes, banged fingers and, occasionally, bashed toes (it’s complicated, but think…
A New Planner (Or, 2021 Here I Come)
A couple posts ago I talked about my planner, and how I’m ecologically against buying a new partly plastic planner every year when my refillable leather planner folio has been going strong for 30 years…
Work in Progress
A batch of sunflowers volunteered in the flowerpot by our front door, and I feel very much like this bloom. I’m not yet fully formed, but I’m on my way. It’s been a meandering journey…
College School Supplies Haul!
The cool people who make college student life vlogs always do these big “school supplies haul” videos showing all the stuff they got for going back to school. I’ve watched a bunch over the years and…
Finals Week and One More Step Toward Making it Real
I’m done with finals! I had planned to sit Biological Anthropology Friday and Cultural Anthropology Saturday, but my studying took longer than expected and by the time I was done it was time to get…