When I was a kid, I was strangely obsessed with the song “Minnesota” by a band called Northern Light.  Only I had my own version of it–“Being a Soda.” Honestly, I can’t remember if I thought the lyrics actually were “being a soda” or if that was my intentional attempt at a parody. I think…

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being backstage, waiting to go on to perform. It’s terrifying–so much could go wrong. Depending on what type of performance I’m doing, there’s a menu of potential mishaps–I could forget my lines, or my voice could crack, or I could totally mess up my piano playing, or I…

I’ve never been into flower gardening–it seems like way too much work (all gardening seems like too much work.) I tend to just wear my flowers. I wrote a rather in-depth post not too long ago (https://amyluedtke.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/flower-power/*) about my penchant for floral print clothes, focusing on an artifact from high school I still own and…

I recently discovered that I can make even latch hook harder than it needs to be.  I love latch hook because it doesn’t require much brain power. Once you learn the basic hooking technique, you’re set. As Chad has said, it’s basically “yarn by numbers.” It’s definitely possible to latch hook while you’re brain is…

This weekend I got my Walker Art Museum membership card, so I feel officially qualified to celebrate and blog about Museum Advocacy Days (although I feel like I will be appreciating more than advocating, but close enough for my blogging purposes).  I didn’t go to a museum today, but I have plenty of photos (not…

When I was in third grade, a teacher whom I liked very much told me that I didn’t always have to talk so loudly.  HAPPY QUIET DAY! Conventional wisdom might suggest that as a librarian, I’m all about the quiet. It may also suggest that as a drummer, I’m also about making as much noise…

I use the word “chip” as an umbrella term for all types of salty, crunchy snack foods–chips, crackers, pretzels, puffs, etc. And I eat a lot of them. More than I wish I did.  So I feel like I should find it easy to write about “National Tortilla Chip Day,” but two-thirds into my holiday…

One of the (few) good things my mom had to say about my dad is that he was a good tipper. He was reportedly consistently nice to servers. I remember my mom telling a story about a time when a carhop spilled an entire tray of food in his lap at a drive in and…

I’ve been thinking hard about what to write for World Thinking Day. This is another holiday that I had no idea what it was about based on the name. Once again, I chose it as the best of lackluster options…certainly I could come up with something to write about thinking. But then I actually looked…

I know almost nothing about Tarot cards, and have few thoughts or feelings about them. But I thought I was going to have to come up with something to say about Tarot cards, as Card Reading Day seems my best option to blog about today. (The other “top” choices were National Sticky Bun Day and…