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A week and a half ago, the Lowe’s truck came with three pallets of 40 pound bags of top soil. That’s a total of 8,000 pounds of soil for the backyard. We’ve moved about half of that. The problem is the grade in the backyard. A rather large, 16 foot by 16 foot deck, had…

Here’s an again word you wouldn’t think was really an again word. Despite the fact that we’re trying to be adults and answer the question, “What’s for dinner?” with the words, “We’ve got food at home,” we come and go to restaurants time and again. In my mind there are tiers of restaurants: Utility Food:…

This is an addendum to my post from last night, mainly since I discovered this now rather than then. I received my Grammarly report, and, well, I’m a little impressed with myself. Grammarly says in this blog I use 625 unique words. Apparently, that’s a bigger vocabulary than 76 percent of Grammarly’s users. My latest…

On March 27, this year, I wrote about following my passions under the again {Re}tro. I was struggling with the idea and the meme: Follow your passion. I always feel as though these words are off kilter. That skew something that I cannot put my finger on. And then this morning, I read a Harvard…

To remind is a sort of jogging or nudging of one’s memory by association or similarity. This morning I read this great article about wise quotes and remind me it did. The one that got my goat was the one: He who angers you controls you. (See what I did there?) The saying supposedly originates…

It’s Friday night, again. And here Keck and I sit on the couch vegging out to whatever’s on our television watch list. This week we took up opting out of television for most nights. We were going for Monday through Thursday but we didn’t quite make it. One of Keck’s favorite shows is the History…

I know this is a word, and I’m fairly certain it’s in the Oxford English Dictionary. I only need to go to the local library to prove it. Fallow means uncultivated or unplowed (and I did try to spell “unploughed” the old English way). I think back to when I was a teenager and reading…

When I started writing this blog months ago, I had been writing under my name, thinking that eventually I’d author a book. While KrisHilburnWilliams.com still exists and I own it, I thought a name change would help me out. I came to TotallyKris.com. Writing under my full, official name narrowed my focus, and helped me…

After yesterday’s blustery show of autumn’s true colors, we woke up to a beautiful, sunny day. I’ve seen all the silly meme’s that the weather is disrespectful. But, I really think we should respect the weather. Grab some gloves and a scarf, people. This kind of weather puts a skip in your step. And apparently…