lights of the week: 7/27
It’s Friday again. And part of me wants to skip a lights-of-the-week post again this week, because I feel so negative this week (again), and I don’t want to be that. (And I recognize that as long as...
View Articleweekly wrap-up: 8/3
It’s been a long, hard week. If it was possible for me to take it personally this week, I probably did, and not in any positive way. On the plus side, I could see that’s what I was doing, and there’s a...
View Articleon beauty and art
Recently in one of my drawing classes, Phil, our instructor read aloud to us from Robert Henri’s book The Art Spirit. And it so moved me, I felt so connected with what he read, that within a couple of...
View Articlelights of the week: 8/10
Today is Friday. It is also payday. It is also the last official day of my manager’s vacation. That pretty much makes today the triple crown winner for highlight of the week, even if the only thing I...
View Articlea snippet: stream of consciousness
I woke up a little early again this morning (shortly before 6), despite having turned off all the alarms. Eventually I slept again for a couple of hours, but I spent some time laying quietly in bed...
View Articlelights of the week: 8/24
So many things. House-stuff is mostly dominating my thoughts and experience right now. The seller’s lienholder approved an extension, so we’re targeting a September 14 close date. Which is nice because...
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lights of the week: 8/31
Amazingly, this week has had remarkably little angst or stress about work-related things. Which has been wonderful. Monday was a little hard, after having taken Friday and half of Thursday off work....
View Articlea snippet from my evening
*opens the frig to look for food for supper* Nothing looks good. What’s in the bag on the bottom shelf? Oh! Those golden roma tomatoes I bought a week ago and forgot about! Dinner tonight: cheese,...
View Articlethe prodigal blogger returns
I haven’t written anything here for a while (over a year – it took some trial and error for me to remember how to log in). And chances are that I won’t be super prolific, and probably not regular...
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on death and dying
Cats aren’t supposed to be this floppy. That’s what I was thinking that night. But by then you weren’t a cat anymore; just a cat-shaped facsimile. You had a resemblance to my cat, as long as I didn’t...
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