Passing the time
I was smearing peanut butter on a rice cake yesterday when it occurred to me I wasn’t hungry – I ate it anyway. I like the sensation of my teeth pushing through a rice cake, it reminds me of chewing pencils – the peanut butter was a bonus. I’ve been doing a lot of mindless eating these […]
The watcher
I’m having a devil of a time trying to write about my recent adventure. I find this odd because it was a great adventure – my whole family (three kids, their spouses and four grandchildren) went for a nine day vacation to one of the happiest places on earth – Disney’s Magic Kingdom – and I […]
Armchair Politics
I have recently discovered CNN – I’ve always been a bit of a news junkie but this.. this discovery has catapulted my addiction to a whole new level. The news from the USA has become something of an evening soap opera for me. I’ve been introduced to programming that is positively riveting and a cast of thousands […]
‘The Before’
I was typing tonight as I often do in the quiet of the evening, concentrating on words, when I unwittingly took a little trip. I don’t know how long I was gone, diving deeper and deeper into my thoughts but it must have been awhile considering the depth of my confusion when I looked up. For a […]
Silver linings
The horizon was dishing out silver linings like Facebook reminders yesterday morning. They were so impressive I was compelled to dig my phone out of my pocket and take a picture – the world was waking up, a new day dawning and silver linings were abundant. In that moment of appreciation it occurred to me that silver […]
Here on the coast
Weather is still the topic du jour – temperatures have been in and out of the minuses for days now and ‘they’ are forecasting more of the same. ‘They’ being a group of fortune telling weather gurus who seem to relish delivering foul weather news to us candy-asses on the coast – ‘they’ appear downright gleeful watching […]
One of the crowd
It’s January. It’s winter. It’s cold. The ocean was kicking up waves like the meringue on a lemon pie yesterday morning, noisy whitecaps rolled onto a rocky shore – ducks, geese and gulls were riding the swell, relaxed and dressed in down. Chester and I, being a hardy pair, were bundled for a winter storm and braving temperatures that […]
First thing in the morning
My dad used to sing in the shower – I don’t mean humming lighthearted melodies as he washed his hair, he belted out big, boisterous marching songs – ‘It’s a long way to Tipperary’, ‘Seventy-six Trombones’, ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’. I’d bury my head under my covers listening to his medley and try to grab […]
The eve
It’s a wrap – we’re putting 2019 to bed tonight – tomorrow will be the first day of a brand new year, a day of resolutions and promises. It will also be Wednesday, the middle of the week and half way to the weekend. Tomorrow will be special and ordinary in the same moment, the world will […]
It’s almost here…
Last year at this time I was rattling around a family home that didn’t hold a family anymore – just me and two dogs wondering if we should even bother with Christmas. I was lonely beyond words, sad in a fashion unbecoming and lost – in short, I was a mess. A lot has happened in […]