Something happened this afternoon that I am still "having big feelings over" as the kids say. No pics from today, the image is from April, when I saw a yellow jacket struggling on a chilly evening, the first YJ of the year. That's her in the photo below. I brought her inside and let her …
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Quantum Macaroni Salad
This may come as a shock but, before tonight, I had never made macaroni salad. I have made, many a time during my culinary days, macaronish salad, some concoction of leftover plain pasta from yesterday's lunch line or dinner service, thrown together with other leftovers and a vaguely creamy dressing (eww). But I have never …
Where in the world am I?
Just like you, I'm sitting on my couch. And like King Theoden of Rohan, I'm quietly muttering "how did it come to this?" Things were going so well since last I posted here...I had been traveling, to incredible South Africa, back to my beloved Iceland, and then snorkeling in the Yucatan a couple times. My …
South Africa Road Trip 2017, Day Two (Part 4 of 4): Hi, Hyena Pups!
Are you feeling like Day Two posts will never end? I get it. And trust me, after not sleeping on the plane over, I was starting to feeling like day two of the trip was a weird dreamstate outside the time-space continuum. But this day eventually did come to an end (as all things do), …
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South Africa Road Trip 2017, Day Two (Part 3 of 4): I Question This Elephant’s Parenting Skills
It was barely mid-morning when we left the mighty herd of elephants and resumed driving north toward Satara Rest Camp. On the way we stopped at one of the few spots in the park, outside of the rest camps, where you are allowed to alight, at your own risk. Though don't plan on alighting for …
South Africa Road Trip 2017, Day Two (Part 2 of 4): There Will Be Elephants
There we were, on the second day — the first full day — of our trip to South Africa, less than 24 hours since entering Kruger National Park, when Tori spotted the distant herd of elephants. There were so many that they looked like a big tan blob slowly undulating across a hillside. But the …
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South Africa Road Trip 2017, Day Two (Part 1 of 4): The Lonely Rhino
In the Olden Days of Blogging, I would have put up a post with 60 photos in it without a second thought. Well, I have grown. And I have experienced how vexing it is to try to read someone's blog on a cheap smartphone with a limited data plan and lousy coverage. I'm dividing the …
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South Africa Road Trip 2017, Day One: Just Lion Around
I'm kicking off the revamp and reactivation of my personal blog with a day-by-day accounting of my May 2017 road trip through South Africa. Be ready for photos. Lots of photos. So. Many. Photos. I had wanted to visit South Africa for more than 20 years, mostly because of the chance to see Great White …
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New Site On the Way!
Well, hello, much-neglected personal website. It's been a while. Since my last post in 2015 I've gone to the Republic of Georgia and South Africa, and I still haven't blogged about visiting Kyoto in...2013? Wow. Time flies. It really waits for no man, or woman. But there is also a time for everything, and everything …
Marry Me, Iceland
(Yes, it’s been a while since a proper post, but I just took my first real vacation in more than three years, which should tell you how things have been. Since my last vacation, northern Norway in 2012, I took a job that involves a lot of staring at a screen and fixing other writers’ …
Gemma Tarlach 