“Wow, you really don’t know how to follow, do you? I gave you a pretty strong cue about which way I wanted you to turn and you went the opposite way. You had to work harder to NOT follow me than to follow me.”  Chad offered this evaluation a couple of Sundays ago after he…

It’s my birthday, so I’ve made it to another year!! Yay! Yes, this is me putting a bit of a forced positive spin on my birthday and growing older. But even though it’s cheesy, birthdays are worth celebrating because another year is another gift. And in a way, making it to another year is a…

On Read Across America Day, we should celebrate everywhere, in all communities, in all types of venues.  So I celebrated by reading in a Bingo Parlor.  Yes, artistic license alert–I wasn’t actually in a bingo parlor–just a local bar/restaurant that has Bingo every Saturday afternoon. But this is some serious bingo action, almost THREE HOURS…

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…