After an exceedingly stupid issue with passwords and inaccessible email accounts and my memory, I am back into my WordPress admin panel!

I am not foolish enough to say I am going to start posting again. I would like to post consistently, but I think pledging to do so always jinxes the plan, and the post that expresses the pledge is the last post ever! So, I might post again. I might not. We’ll just wait and see.

What’s with the photo above?

My youngest daughter, Lydia, who hates me because she’s 14 and that’s just what you do at 14, asked me to go on a bike ride this morning. I said yes, of course, and after pouring over maps and possible routes, we settled on the ride we always do — a 20-miler down to Goose Island County Park and back. It was a glorious time. We talked about turtles and the perils of crossing the road to lay eggs. We processed a long list of pets that a girl of 14 might bring into the house. And we talked about boys a very little.

I think I need to buy her a bigger bike.