No One is Listening but Me It surrounds me with tentacles seeping their way into everything I do during my waking and who knows if sleeping hours, too. Music streams are carefully curated for me based on my unique listening habits. Music is powerful. I listen to the results of an algorithm carefully designed to […]
In a Clever Spot
In a Clever Spot Have you ever said that? Have you ever said that right after you have put something down, and then you turn around and can’t find it anywhere? Oh, it must be in a clever spot. So many times it is the important things I use daily that gravitate so easily to […]
A Trip to the Grocery Store
A Trip to the Grocery Store I ventured out into the world today for a trip to the grocery store. Yes, I could have waited. I have lentils, rice, beans, eggs, flour, oil, over-wintered chard, new spring radishes, and arugula out in the garden, and milk in the freezer that hopefully will make yogurt. But, […]
Pivot Home
Pivot Home pivot | ˈpivət | verb (pivots, pivoting, pivoted) [no object] turn on or as if on a pivot: he swung around, pivoting on his heel | the sail pivots around the axis of a virtually static mast. She pivots and finds a new way of being out in the world…at home. From the […]
One Car Family
One Car Family That’s what it feels like right now…the days when families had but one car. There was the scheduling of who needed it…for work, for errands, for recreation with the kids. That last one was mainly on weekends and in the summertime when we got to go swimming at the motel that belonged […]
My Days Are Full
My Days Are Full Right now I think a lot about how I might reinvent myself to restart a cash flow once we get to the other side of the virus. But it doesn’t stop me as there is lots to do. My days are full of cooking, baking, weeding and planting. It’s a rhythm […]
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 20TEENS
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 20TEENS Winter is a time of retrospection. Not only have I been thinking about the highlights of 2019, I’ve been thinking about the entire decade. It has been quite a ride, this decade and all the ones that have come before, and to tell you about all of it, well I would […]