Currently undertaking a selfie a day challenge
A person wearing large black glasses and a beige hoodie is smiling slightly with a colorful, blurred background behind them.

My new glasses really reflect the lights.

Selfie a day for a year, day 24: Sep 13, 2026 edition.

A smiling man and woman wearing sunglasses and hats pose for a selfie outdoors in a sunny setting. A lively outdoor festival takes place in an urban park with colorful lanterns hanging above a crowd of people against a backdrop of tall city buildings. Colorful paper lanterns are strung across a clear blue sky with trees in the background and a bird flying above. A woman wearing large sunglasses and a beaded necklace takes a selfie in a park with green foliage and blooming white flowers behind her.

Spent the day in Boston checking out the Mid Autumn Lantern Festival, eating hot pot, getting fancy chocolates and wandering around the Boston Garden and Common.

Selfie a day for a year, day 23: Sep 12, 2026 edition.

A woman wearing a pink cardigan is holding and about to eat a white ice cream bar with small dark bits in a cozy indoor setting.

End of the day treat.

Selfie a day for a year, day 22: Sep 11, 2026 edition.

A person wearing glasses and a blue shirt with a yellow star emblem is standing outdoors in front of tall, leafy plants.

I have mixed feelings about the bamboo in my yard. Once again I need to chop it back to stop it from flopping over the driveway. It makes a nice background though.

Selfie a day for a year, day 21: Sep 10, 2026 edition.

I will not buy a new hobonichi this year… I will not buy a new hobonichi this year… 😅

I need to use up the old notebooks I already have first!

A woman with glasses and long dark hair is smiling softly in a cozy room decorated with colorful flowers, medals, and a panda figurine.

When I first started I would take a handful of selfies and pick the best one. I’ve now reached the point where I take one and post it 😂

Selfie a day for a year, day 20: Sep 9, 2026 edition.

A person wearing large black glasses and a white t-shirt is taking a selfie in a warmly lit room with wooden beams and cozy furniture.

A little behind on my selfie a day project. Saturday killed me with almost five hours of Taijiquan practice and then I was a zombie Saturday. I’m doing much better today 😄

Selfie a day for a year, day 19: Sep 8, 2026 edition.

A woman with glasses and long brown hair is smiling slightly while standing in front of a bookshelf filled with colorful books.

Today featured new glasses, searching for a new book, and then the movies to see Coyote versus Acme. It was good!

Selfie a day for a year, day 18: Sep 5, 2026 edition.

A person with long dark hair and red-framed glasses is smiling slightly while wearing a black t-shirt with colorful text, standing indoors near a vase of vibrant artificial flowers and framed butterfly decorations on the wall.

T-shirt says it all.

Selfie a day for a year, day 17: Sep 4, 2026 edition.

A person with glasses and a maroon shirt is smiling inside a cozy room with bookshelves and a couch in the background.

Feeling more like myself. Watching TV with the kids.

Selfie a day for a year, day 16: Sep 3, 2026 edition.

A woman wearing glasses, a purple sweater, and a turquoise necklace is indoors near a large window with a grassy outdoor area and a colorful ocean-themed painting in the background.

I did make it to the office today even though I had to drag myself out the door. After I got home I took a three hour nap.

Selfie a day for a year, day 15: Sep 2, 2026 edition.

A woman with long dark hair, wearing glasses and a beige hoodie, is sitting indoors with bookshelves and a door in the background.

Migraine.

Selfie a day for a year, day 14: Sep 1, 2026 edition.

A woman with long, wavy hair is wearing large, black-framed glasses and is looking directly at the camera in an indoor setting.

I went shopping for new glasses. I didn’t get this pair, they were a bit too big and heavy, but I loved the big blocky frame. I’ll get the new ones in a week 🤓

Selfie a day for a year, day 13: Aug 31, 2026 edition.

A woman wearing a cap with cartoon eyes takes a selfie at an outdoor gathering where people are socializing and food is served under a decorated wooden canopy. Several rows of golden-brown fried dough pastries are neatly arranged on a table covered with paper towels.

Today was filled with family. All the aunties got together to make Portuguese Malassadas.

Selfie a day for a year, day 12: Aug 30, 2026 edition.

A woman in a martial arts uniform is taking a selfie inside a gym with punching bags and exercise equipment in the background.

I started teaching Saturday morning tai chi at a local gym a couple of months back. I’m loving it. 💖☯️

Selfie a day for a year, day 11: Aug 29, 2026 edition.

A person with a red and black patterned shirt is smiling while taking a selfie inside a warmly lit restaurant with wooden floors and other people in the background.

Date night with my husband at New Rivers in Providence RI. The food was fantastic!

Selfie a day for a year, day 10: Aug 28, 2026 edition.

A woman with long dark hair is taking a selfie indoors, standing next to a wooden table with a pink garment featuring colorful floral embroidery laid out on it.

I’m getting started on my new fall project. A new embroidered tai chi uniform. Got the appliqué all laid out for the back.

Selfie a day for a year, day 9: Aug 27, 2026 edition.

A woman with glasses and long dark hair is smiling and taking a selfie in a warmly lit kitchen and dining area.

Almost forgot, so this will have to do 😂

Selfie a day for a year, day 8: Aug 26, 2026 edition.

A person wearing glasses is posing in front of a wall-mounted sculpture resembling an octopus made from stitched leather or similar material.

I found this odd leather octopus at a Renaissance Fair a few years back. Now it lives in my home office.

Selfie a day for a year, day 7: Aug 25, 2026 edition.

A person wearing glasses is lying down with a content tabby cat stretching across their arm in a patch of sunlight.

My workout buddy. He sometimes comes by for scratches when the sunshine is on my yoga mat.

Selfie a day for a year, day 6: Aug 24, 2026 edition.

A person wearing glasses and a plaid shirt smiles at the camera with a blurred background, giving a sense of motion or spinning.

I took this one spinning in a circle. Because, why not? 😵‍💫

Selfie a day for a year, day 5: Aug 23, 2026 edition.

A woman with long brown hair and glasses is wearing a necklace with a cross pendant, sitting indoors with a softly blurred background featuring plants and warm lighting.

Out to eat with my parents and sister. Nick’s on Broadway in Providence RI.

Selfie a day for a year, day 4, Aug 22, 2026 edition.

Finished Reading 2026: Born on a blue day by Daniel Tammet 📚

I enjoyed this book. It was one I couldn’t put down, so I read it in a day. I really liked learning about his world and the idea of visualizing numbers is fascinating.

A woman wearing large sunglasses and a light hoodie is holding a Dunkin’ coffee cup while seated in a car.

Coffee time. Don’t worry, the car was still parked when I snapped the picture.

Selfie a day for a year, day 3, Aug 21, 2026 edition.

A person with glasses and long dark hair is lying down on a textured surface, wearing a black top.

Yesterday I shared a selfie on day two of a three day work event. I’m finally done and this is the aftermath. Me tired, cranky, and with a migraine. The picture being upside down fits my mood.

Selfie a day for a year, day 2, Aug 20, 2026 edition.

I’m trying a new thing. Making a post once a day. I’ve been running around nonstop for a work conference, so I guess today’s post is a selfie.

A woman with long dark hair, wearing a green top and unique gold earrings, takes a selfie in a well-lit outdoor space with white chairs and a grassy background.

I decided to make a theme page on my website to either show or have a limited demo (i.e. links are probably broken). It’s fun looking back at all the things I’ve tried.

Blind to the Feeling of Advancement

Recently I’ve been met with paired astonishment, me at them and them at me, when I under-indicated my skills in conversation. It doesn’t matter what skill in question. Taijiquan, writing haiku, or software development. My perspective is that I’m a beginner, maybe advanced beginner if I’m being generous. Not impressive. Theirs is the opposite. I’m flabbergasted at the praise and they seemed incredulous I don’t get it. It’s not a new occurrence but with it happening twice in quick succession, once with my taijiquan…

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We ended up at a gem and mineral show today and look at this agate sphere I found! A naturally occurring yin yang when you hold it just right 🤩

A smooth, polished white stone sphere with a subtle beige pattern rests on a clear stand on a wooden surface.

Finally had some time to update a few things on my website. I added a projects page and a pets page to gather up all my cute pet photos. Next up is getting my reading page up to date and a few design tweaks :)

Finishing up my Taijiquan Haiku

I was working on my taijiquan haiku series and then lost steam. Part of it was the double haiku’s weren’t all as strong as each other. I decided since that was holding me up to simplify and do one haiku per each. Again these are in no way meant to speak like the classics or be authoritative. But crafting them has given me time to really think and dig deep on each one. My ultimate plan is to put these to watercolor and calligraphy and hang them in my home office. Peng spine long and crown high sunk deep buoyant chi…

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The Mask In the Mirror

This month’s Indieweb Carnival is on “Masks, Identities & Cosplay” and this post is a response to the prompt “I invite you to consider what masks and cosplay mean and how they interact with identity, for you.” The Mask In the Mirror I don’t have many mirrors in my house. It never occurred to me to have a bunch, a simple one in the bathroom and a longer one somewhere to see outfits seems plenty to me. My teenaged daughter disagrees. One reason not to have them is they make me uncomfortable. Not in a “I don’t like…

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I’m moving Lillihub from classic deno deploy (which is sunsetting) to the new deno deploy. There will be some down time as I complete the migration.

I got back from a wonderful vacation and immediately got swamped with emails and meetings. Can I go back? - Stonington ME

A serene coastal scene features clear blue water, rocky shores, and a backdrop of evergreen trees under a partly cloudy sky.

When I get bored and have access to claude.ai… I build html quine apps 😄 My newest creation is a personal financial planner app. I love this format, self contained and easy to backup. Too bad cross device usage is still a pain. Though… I also wrote them before as well (just not as quickly).

It’s nice enough to each lunch outside. I’m loving this.

Sigh, it looks like Deno Deploy Classic is being sunsetted mid-July. Guess I’ll have to move, Lillihub 🐸, my micro.blog client, to the new one or start hosting it myself.

This weekend I reached for Claude AI to see how it does with an SVG heavy design. It struggled with keeping things in proportion and keeping perspective. I had to nudge it and do hand edits. SVG’s are not my forte but together we brought my concept to life. I think its adorable. Check it out.

blog with pirate ship design. blog posts go down the sails. at the top there is a pirate and a compass rose for blog navigation.

My poor memory strikes again. I was talking with my sister that I would love, love, love to go see Les Misérables some day on stage when my husband speaks up and tells me he took me to see it already 🤔😆 Woops.

Two years later and my other kid needs cookies. At least this time my child checked in the morning well ahead of the lab 😆

Now that I got my pkm tool to where I want it, my next project is going to be a CMS that lets me build a website like a sticker book.

Auto-generated description: A digital journal interface displays an agenda for March 22, 2026, featuring martial arts and fitness activities, personal notes, and a video link.

I’m required to use Claude at work so I’ve been testing it out. My favorite so far: A PWA quine PKM system. Took what I liked from Logseq (outline - simplified) and single file architecture (Tiddlywiki). I also added in sync to Micro.blog’s private notes with chunking. Came together in a day.

I’ve had kid(s) for a decade and a half now, and I’m still surprised how early registration opens up for things… like summer camp. Guess I know what I’m researching this evening.

Blood Moon Eclipse
Handwritten blog post — transcript below. Doodles: Three grey cloud shapes and two grey spiral/swirl shapes are scattered around the margins; on the left side is a dark grey cloud with a red/coral half-circle peeking behind it, suggesting a blood moon obscured by clouds.
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I got up this morning around 3am because… my brain sucks sometimes. Anyway, it was cloudy then and its still cloudy now. Oh well…

♥ Loura

The Waiting Game
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My kid fell in love with the local agricultural school during a summer camp session. This year our state switched all technical schools to be lottery based. We filled out the application and today was the day. We waited…

No luck. I have a very sad kid.

Our town reported 25in of snow for today’s blizzard. Though I feel like we got more. Not the best day for a shear pin to break on the snow blower. So we got to hand shovel the way too long driveway.

Women in snow gear standing in front of large snow pile and bamboo.

I purchased a variety of green teas to try for the new year. As a way to take quiet moments and enjoy some health benefits. Today’s selection: premium dragon well long jing. It has a nice smell and its quite mellow.

I downloaded the hobonichi app to see if I liked it more than day one. It is cuter which may help me stick, but I like the encrypted option of day one and with day one I can use the android share sheet and get thoughts like these into Micro.blog. I’m going to give each a month and then decide.

I had a good time attending a virtual Homebrew Website Club meeting this evening while I worked on my blog redesign. I was inspired by a codepen I came across for a journal with flipping pages done with CSS. The design only shows for desktop and its still a work in progress, but I’m having a blast.

I didn’t realize day one now had a web app and an android app. I’m going to have to check it out.

Planting bamboo along a driveway is fun! Ignore that it’s impassable mess when covered in snow. Every winter storm we need to keep shaking the snow off to keep it from freezing to the ground. Maybe this is why the previous owner left 🤣 (they planted it).

Snow-covered bamboo blocks a driveway with a backdrop of winter forest scene.

I forgot how loud an indoor water park can get. The kids are having fun though 😄

We’ve been sick with the flu the last two weeks so I’ve done zero prep for the new year. But waking up to a fresh dusting of snow was nice.

A snow-covered landscape with bare trees is visible through a rectangular window.

I had a lovely holiday and I’m on vacation until the new year. I’m going to spend time catching up on my five year journal and planning out the next five years. There are college plans for one kid, figuring out high school plans for another and finishing up my “homeschooling the kids” journey.

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