D & F Week Off
hi folks, I didn't have time or energy to write a newsletter this week due to a bike crash on Friday. I'm mostly ok, but pretty badly bruised and I've got a...
D&F 4/11/21
D&F 4/11/21 What's the 411?! Do y'all remember when you could text Google? back in the days when they were all about "don't be evil"? I do. Now, we all have...
D&F 4/04/21
D&F 4/04/21 What if the entire last year was an April fool's joke? A few friends have told me they imagine waking up from a bad dream one morning in March...
D&F 3/28/21
D&F 3/28/21 A crisp fresh breeze drifts through my windows and across my living room. I think, yes, it's spring! The days a longer and it's now the season...
D&F 3-21-21
D&F 3/21/21 Can you smell the spring equinox?! There was a hummingbird nest outside my house today, and Lena and I both agreed it was a sign of the spring....
D&F 3-14-21
D&F 3/14/21 drafts It's midway through march, and I'm cautiously optimistic! This week marked news of a general > 16 y/o availability of vaccines in the...
D&F 3-7-21
D&F 3/7/21 This weekend almost felt normal again! I definitely feel a great deal of fear and worry still about COVID-19, but luckily I got to see my friend...
D&F 2-28-21
D&F 2/28/21 For me this weekend started with very sore legs, and a live show from the folks at Rude Tales of Magic. The show was a pretty bizarre and...
D&F 2-21-21
D&F 2/21/21 drafts It's nearly the end of February, and it's starting to get sunny again here in the Bay Area, while my home state of Texas is absolutely...
D&F 2-14-21
D&F 2/14/21 Ah the big day of disappointment, chocolate, and confusion. A pox upon Mr. Valentine and the prevalence of regret-inducing lactose. I hope you...
D&F 2/8/21
D&F 2/8/21 It's a new month, and I'm getting back into Survivor a bit. I blame this fully on my friend Christine, who recently dove deep into Cagayan. As...
D&F 1-31-21
D&F 1/31/21 drafts One down, eleven to go! 2021 is still all stonks and a mad scramble to unfuck the mess the last White House inhabitants left. I bet the...
D&F 1-24-21
D&F 1/24/21 Happy Bernie meme week! Far and away, these are my two favorite ones: https://twitter.com/kevinsukholee/status/1352687755621351425?s=21...
D&F 1-17-21
D&F 1/17/21 2021 is wild so far! Between people I know actually getting vaccines, an incredibly scary coup attempt, and a few blessed days of rain I'm not...
D&F 1-10-21
D&F 1/10/21 Well, it's been quite the week. With both a [violent invasion of the nation's capital by a bunch of...
D&F 1-3-21
D&F 1/3/21 Happy new year, and あけおめ to my Japanese pals! We made it to the end of 2020. What a wild and rough time for the world. I hope you had a lovely...
D&F 12-27-20
D&F 12/27/20 Welcome to the last links newsletter of 2020! We've almost finished this terrible year. Congratulations, or as the show Alice in Borderland...
D&F 12-20-20
D&F 12-20-20 Today marks my second day of a long vacation. I hope you are also getting a bit of a break from 2020 right here at the end of the year. The Bay...
D&F 12/13/20
D&F 12/13/20 Ah, tis the week of penis2 https://twitter.com/tanisthelesbiab/status/1334561466175787008?s=20 If you don't care about Cyberpunk 2077, skip to...
D&F 12/7/20
D&F 12/7/20 Instead of writing this on Saturday, as I usually do, I drank a lot of nog + aquavit (nogavit) at a distance with my friend Lena, and then...
Dill & Fennel 11-29-20
D&F 11/29/20 Greetings from the tail-end of a vacation week for your hostess. I celebrated my birthday on Thursday with a couple friends, a couple bottles of...
Dill & Fennel 11-22-20
Dill & Fennel 11/22/20 Ah the start of my birthday week. https://twitter.com/brookshelley/status/1329341287166734336?s=20 Birthdays aren't my favorite thing,...
Dill & Fennel 11-15-20
Dill & Fennel 11/15/20 Can you believe we’re halfway through November? Despite the sameness of many days during this mostly-constant quarantine, this year is...
Dill & Fennel 11-8-20
Dill & Fennel 11/8/20 As I write this, we’re fresh off the calling of the election for Joe Biden. I’m celebrating. I’m celebrating four years without a...
Dill & Fennel 11-1-20
Dill & Fennel 11/1/20 Good morning race fans (jk I know like only one of you likes Formula 1). Spooky season is over. I hope you had the maximal amount of...
Dill & Fennel 10-25-20
Dill & Fennel 10/25/20 Happy Sunday! It’s Portugal GP time in the Formula one world, and potentially a record-breaking victory for Lewis Hamilton, beating...
Dill & Fennel 10-18-20
Dill & Fennel 10/18/20 Another week is in the can, midway through spooky season. I’m seeing some really wild Halloween decorations in my neighborhood, but am...
Dill & Fennel 10-11-20
Dill & Fennel 10/11/20 Let’s get SPOOKY! https://twitter.com/lindseybieda/status/1314019257500479488?s=20 We’re only a few days away from what could be a...
Dill & Fennel 10-4-20
Dill & Fennel 10/4/20 October is full of surprises and delights so far. I feel like so many of us have held our collective breath, waiting for folks who so...
Dill & Fennel 9-27-20
Dill & Fennel 9/27/20 Everybody watch out, I own a laser now. Far from being a futuristic laser pistol, it’s a much more banal home hair removal laser. As a...
Dill & Fennel 9-20-20
Dill & Fennel 9/20/20 Finally, a brief respite in the smoke! I got to go on a nice long bike ride around the lake as soon as the air hit green. The rest of...
Dill & Fennel 9-17-20
Dill & Fennel 9/14/20 Greetings from the surface of Mars! Wednesday in the Bay Area was deeply scary and awful, but the smoke has stayed here albeit in a...
Dill & Fennel 9-6-20
Dill & Fennel 9-6-20 Well, it’s hot again in the Bay Area, on top of this wild smoke we’ve got everywhere. I’m pretty tired of it, for one, especially since...
Dill & Fennel 8-30-20
Dill & Fennel 8/30/20 Welcome to my delayed last newsletter of the month. I had some pals by yesterday to sit at a distance in my courtyard and when the last...
Dill & Fennel 8/23/20
Ah, breathe deep the fires of California. Just in case you needed another reason to stay inside and wear a mask, dry thunderstorms have delivered. I don’t...
Dill & Fennel August 17
This weeks email was written an entire day early as I plan to head up a mountain and camp for a night. It's going to be hot so I hope the mountain is a...
Dill & Fennel 8/17/20
Dill & Fennel 8-9-20
Dill & Fennel 8/9/20 How’s your August going? Are you doing any hiking or swimming? Planning any solo adventures? I’m planning a backpacking trip in the near...
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Dill & Fennel 31 (Hopefully this isn’t a duplicate—if it is, sorry. Had some technical challenges today) Another weekend is upon us! Blessed weekend! It’s...
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Dill & Fennel 30 This weekend was pretty nice in the Shelley house—we started early by taking Friday off to volunteer for the Women’s Foundation (Snorri...
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Fennel & Dill 29 Happy March 141st! Time continues to show up for me in the cycles of life—laundry, therapy, medicine, and plant watering. With news that...
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Fennel & Dill Another week, and another Formula One race in Austria. For the first time in the over 70 year history of this race series two races occurred at...
Fennel & Dill 27
Well, the long weekend and constant fireworks in Oakland threw me for a loop! I lost track of the days and thought it was Saturday, and I still had an entire...
Fennel & Dill 26
The bay this week was thankfully cooler than the past month. My body was thankful for the heat respite, and Snorri was cuddlier as a result. This week felt...
Dill & Fennel 25
It’s a foggy, overcast Saturday as I write this newsletter. Yesterday, my company gave Juneteenth off as time to volunteer and remember, and I spent most of...
Fennel & Dill 24
It’s been a rough week for so many folks I love due to police violence and a Friday rollback of national trans healthcare. I hope you’re taking care of...
Fennel & Dill—Week 23
This is my eleventh week in quarantine, since I was in Japan when the Bay Area shut down. COVID is still scary, but it’s been an even harder week due to...
Fennel & Dill: Week 22
Week 22 It's been a busy week! At my company, we had Monday and Friday off, and most of our staff took off the entire week. I decided to work through the...
Fennel & Dill: Week 21
Welp, first sunburn of the quarantine for this gal. I spent the afternoon in a friend’s yard (hi André and Haley) and forgot my skin has been softened by...
Fennel & Dill: Week Twenty
Trying out a new name for this that isn’t just “links”. Fennel and dill are two of my favorite flavors, but also a terrible combination. They also happen to...