Field Notes

Notes from everyday life

Stories from caregiving, work, school, AI and everyday life: small, curious moments worth remembering.

“Congratulations”—Is That Right?

Everyone congratulated my child on losing a baby tooth. Then Grandpa lost a tooth, too.

Grandpa had forgotten his medicine after a meal. “Aren’t you forgetting something?” I asked.

Shopping for an AI-suggested dinner, I couldn’t find canned mackerel. Could sardines work instead?

A call about some paperwork. Thirty minutes later, the same call—and the same reply.