A waiting game
I’ve been busy cleaning and staging my condo – I’m on the move again. I’ve purchased a house with my eldest daughter and her husband, a really great place with a self contained two-bedroom suite on the lower level. It’s perfect. We’d fomented this plan back in October – we listed our respective homes and […]
Past Tense
I didn’t stay up to see 2020 out the door – it snuck into the darkness like it arrived into the light of last year, quietly. It’s gone – thank the Lord. I checked the lock this morning fearful an encore was waiting outside – 2020 has been so volatile I don’t trust it to […]
An Unexpected Gift
I woke up this morning with a dream teetering between sleep and consciousness. Dreams for me are always fleeting – I rarely remember them. This morning’s dream was different – it wasn’t so much a dream as it was a memory being relived, a memory of something I hadn’t thought about for years. It left […]
A Covid Christmas
It’s December – Christmas is around the corner and hell bent to make an appearance, pandemic be damned. Covid might have locked us up but the jolly holly will not be denied. The world feels different this year, indifferent. I am indifferent too. My Christmas decorations are still stashed in the crawl space beneath my […]
Here’s hoping
The ocean was choppy. Remnants of a retreating storm hung heavy in clouds resting on the horizon. The day wasn’t exactly dull as it seemed introspective – weather can be like that here on our coast, indecisive. Across the bay Washington State sat in shadows as waves plucked its’ coast in the same fashion our […]
Hope
Heading east from Vancouver the trans Canada highway leads to the small town of Hope. Just outside of Hope the pavement spiderwebs, choices present themselves and travelers are faced with a decision. Where do we go from here? My aunt once told me she’d like to live in Hope, she said she liked the sound […]
The Cheap Seats
I’m sitting in the cheap seats with a distant but clear view of the drama playing out at my neighbor’s place south of the border. I have no stake in the show, nothing personally riding on it and yet I am riveted to the spectacle. I can hardly believe what I’m watching – if a […]
Juxtaposition
One deep breath told me it wasn’t fog hanging over the ocean this morning, it was smoke. Smoke from fires burning in Washington state, Oregon and California. Wildfire smoke, the residue of acres of smoldering wilderness and wild life, homes and hopes. Smoke so thick it smothered the horizon. My eyes burned. I can’t imagine […]
Dry spell
Dealing with Covid19 has become a way of life, we are figuring out how to live with the restrictions and the precautions the virus has inspired, we are beginning to settle into that new normal many of us have been reluctant to accept. And I have nothing to say about any of that – my creative […]