![Windy City Doughnut Crawl [@ChicagoIL]](https://i0.wp.com/talesofcasstastrophe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/B96B91E7-9923-412F-BD82-45CB56B90ABA-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C700&ssl=1 "Windy City Doughnut Crawl [@ChicagoIL]")
Windy City Doughnut Crawl [@ChicagoIL]
Well, friends. It’s happened. We knew it wouldn’t last forever. We had to lose the alliteration some day, I just never imagined that it would be death by doughnut.
Why Am I Still Doing This?
Why hello again, dear reader. It’s so good to see you back. Or, perhaps, I am mistaken, and you’re new here. If so, then welcome in. Tales of Casstastrophe has ...
NaSenWriMo
On a daily basis throughout the month of May, I decided to focus on some concept, word, song, movie, visual, etcetera (and the brain association journey that it / they ...
Introducing: Rhythm & Syntax
Hello, friends. I have something new for you. Before we get to it, though, allow me a moment or two to talk about why this change is coming to Tales ...
![A Farewell Fit For A Queen (City) [@CharlotteNC]](https://i0.wp.com/talesofcasstastrophe.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-08-13-04-08-37-2.jpg?resize=700%2C700&ssl=1 "A Farewell Fit For A Queen (City) [@CharlotteNC]")
A Farewell Fit For A Queen (City) [@CharlotteNC]
Surely, dear reader, you know by now what it is that I am about to tell you. If not from the title of this post, then from the clues that ...
![Learn a Book! – 202[1 Year Without A Gimmick]](https://i0.wp.com/talesofcasstastrophe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/854d2c25-8d04-49b3-ab07-13558ab6218d.jpg?resize=700%2C700&ssl=1 "Learn a Book! – 202[1 Year Without A Gimmick]")
Learn a Book! – 202[1 Year Without A Gimmick]
That’s right. You never thought you’d see this day, did you? 2021, otherwise known as The Year Without A Gimmick for my annual Learn a Book! series. We’ve come a ...
28 Practices of Patience at 28
Even if I have it now, doesn’t mean I’ll have it alwaysPatience is a funny noun, it’ll keep you waiting all day This is not a commentary on the past ...
![Voyages: Blue Ridge Parkway [@NorthCarolina]](https://i0.wp.com/talesofcasstastrophe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4.jpg?resize=700%2C700&ssl=1 "Voyages: Blue Ridge Parkway [@NorthCarolina]")
Voyages: Blue Ridge Parkway [@NorthCarolina]
What’s that? She hadn’t posted any Voyages since New York City in 2017, and now we have two in the span of 2 months? Has she quite lost her mind? ...
![Voyages: Biltmore Estate [@NorthCarolina]](https://i0.wp.com/talesofcasstastrophe.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/3.jpeg?resize=700%2C700&ssl=1 "Voyages: Biltmore Estate [@NorthCarolina]")
Voyages: Biltmore Estate [@NorthCarolina]
Over four years of living down here in North Carolina, and I finally made the trip out west to visit Biltmore. Of course, I am writing this post a few ...
Real Moments: The Speed of Time
“But I also learned that it’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens. It may not ever go away completely, ...