Of course, we also file our taxes by printing out the paper forms and hand-writing it—but accountant husband... I haven’t done my own taxes in years except for signing them (and filling out the personal information).

No! My accountant husband has very strong opinions on H&R block (the in-person version, no opinion on the tax filing version). My friends who have tried to use them have always had TERRIBLE luck (we have very slightly complicated taxes as grad students... ie we pay estimated taxes and are actually explicitly warned…

I drink too much milk to buy groceries every two weeks! (At least for my fridge size). But the grocery store is on our way home from church, so we just go every Sunday on our way home once a week.

I think there are some dogs who just don’t like strange men. We had one growing up, who was fine with my dad and one uncle and one neighbor, but aggressive towards essentially all other men. (So she got put in another room in the house most of the time when male visitors came). And even my dad, who she loved, wasn’t…

Maybe that’s why the ones I bought seem useless compared to the ones my parents use! They use ones that they find by the sides of hikes and various places in southern California and dry themselves. This explains so much!

I learned multiplication when rolling coins for my parents. And later percentages—they let us keep a certain percent of the coins we rolled but only if we got the math right.

When I was growing up in California, we used to just celebrate New York New Year. We still got to stay up late (when I was little, I had a pretty early bedtime) all the way to 9:00, watch the televised celebrations, and have some sparkling apple cider and party. People don’t seem to do that as much now that I’m only…