I talk a lot about our big weekend adventures, but what do people get up to with their pre-school and elementary kiddos on weekday evenings? Activities with kids is one of those topics that I wasn’t prepared for at all as a parent. I quickly discovered that my own after-work hobbies are largely incompatible with […]
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Our last A’s game in Oakland
September 17th, 2024 by pleia2
I attended my first Oakland A’s game on May 17th 2010, just a few months after moving to San Francisco. I wrote about it here: Art and Baseball and the A’s won 8 to 4. A friend of mine I met through the Ubuntu community brought me along and hooked me up with the opportunity […]
Remembering Jim Fisher
August 7th, 2023 by pleia2
On Thursday I woke up to the terrible news that my long time friend and mentor Jim Fisher had died suddenly. The day before a friend of mine had been contacted on Facebook to see if anyone knew about his whereabouts. I passed along the message to his local HAM community, but I didn’t think […]
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Remembering CJ Fearnley
December 16th, 2022 by pleia2
On December 8, 2022, CJ Fearnley passed away after a short, serious illness. I’m heartbroken. When I moved to Philadelphia in 2001, one of the first communities I got involved with was the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG). I had just started dabbling in Linux with the help of my boyfriend at the time, […]
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A night away
July 19th, 2022 by pleia2
As a parent, you’re frequently told to take time for self-care. There’s a reason for it: it is legitimately important, but it’s really, really hard to do. I value my sense of self and identity beyond my children, but I still put them before me. They are totally dependent upon us for everything, and I […]
Pandemic 2022
April 8th, 2022 by pleia2
I wanted to publish this blog post on March 16, 2022. That was the second anniversary of the first shelter-in-place order here in the bay area, and when things really hit home for us. At the time, it felt like a temporary measure, with hair salons and shops posting signs in their windows saying they […]
I had a Maserati
March 25th, 2022 by pleia2
I want to start out this post by sharing a secret: You can get a nice, new Maserati sedan for under $90k. $90k is a lot for a car. It is definitely the most, by far, I’ve ever spent on a car. But it’s on the low end of what people pay for high-end luxury, […]
On motherhood
August 27th, 2021 by pleia2
Motherhood was not a foregone conclusion for me. People talk a lot about biological clocks and a “natural urge” for adults to become parents, but that never came for me. While I enjoyed spending time with kids (we share a lot of interests!), I’ve never been a “baby person” and I even worried that I’d […]
I was wrong about art
June 29th, 2021 by pleia2
I did a lot of drawing when I was a kid, and into my teens. I wasn’t bad at it! Then I stopped and left it all behind, with a bitter taste in my mouth. The downfall of my childhood art journey began one Christmas when I was a teenager, my father bought my younger […]
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