by Ira | Dec 1, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Woof. Today was WAY longer with work than I expected. Sigh. It’s okay. I think we got everything done. We’ll see in the morning. Almost a thirteen hour day. Yikes. I’m wiped. Time for sleep. Tonight’s photo was selected randomly, and what a photo. I miss her so, so...
by Ira | Nov 30, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Boy oh boy did I not want to get up this morning to do my writing. It’s been a week, folks. A week. And this one upcoming will probably be similar in that a lot is going on. For the rest of the year, in fact…but I am resolute. I don’t know how much of this detailed...
by Ira | Nov 29, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
I’ve finally read The Martian. I know. Fourteen years late on that one, but I wasn’t reading much fourteen years ago. I went through decade-plus…probably fifteen years, during my late 20s and almost all of my 30s where I wasn’t hardly reading anything at all. It was...
by Ira | Nov 28, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Go watch 2000 Meters To Andriivka. I, meanwhile, will go watch 20 Days in Mariupol, which I missed the first time around. Same filmmaker. I can tell you that Andriivka is one of more intense docs I’ve ever seen. It’s almost entirely made up of real-time helmet cam...
by Ira | Nov 27, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
I’m very thankful today for my family, for Liz and her family, the pups, the Kings and their friends, for my friends… And somehow this post never happened. What a WEEK this was, my god. I’m a month+ removed from this day, now, catching that I never posted it, and it...
