Month: January 2025

• January 26, 2025

  Home Projects

  Nothing like a baby on the way to remind me of all the projects around the house that I have been meaning to do. Decorating There are few things that make a space feel like mine. Decorating is one of them. Since it is a shared house, there are only so many spaces that I…
• January 19, 2025

  Inspiration: Detective Noir

  Ever since reading The Maltese Falcon in Undergrad, I loved the idea of detective noir. The 1930s novel and its film adaptation with Humphrey Bogart (1941) is often considered the beginning of or at least the solidification of the noir genre. Noir is a work of aesthetics as many genres are and often includes gangsters,…
• January 12, 2025

  Naming my Baby Boy

  Naming a baby is not easy. There are so many things to consider: Is the name too common? Can it be shortened to a cute nickname? Does it have a “y” in it? Does it sound like a dog’s name? Is it too unique? Is it too hippy? Does it have a nice ring to…
• January 5, 2025

  Tarot to Start the Year

  There is a lot of misinformation about tarot in the world. I know people who think it can tell the future, and I know others who think the cards are influenced by Satan. But tarot, like so many things in life, only has as much power as people put into it. Shortly before Covid, I…