January 43, 2022
This has felt like a month with no finish line – a never ending string of Mondays and Tuesdays and I’m tired of it. I’m so done of January I’m even cranky with Alexa. Yup, the perfectly calm and pleasant voice of the granter of requests is seeing a side of me I usually keep under wraps. It […]
The Boring Twenties
I’ve been trying to ignore January by pretending the the clean slate of a new year was still an option but it’s been a fool’s mission. 2022 arrived and its resemblance to 2020 and 2021 is disheartening. This new year got a lackluster reception at my house, it arrived while I was sleeping and I’ve been avoiding […]
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 […]
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 […]
2019
2019 was announced with a bang last Monday night , my neighbors set off a volley of fireworks at the stroke of midnight to mark its arrival. Inside my house a Chesapeake Bay Retriever leapt onto the couch and hid his face in my armpit – he obviously feeling as confident about the upcoming year […]
Surviving Christmas
Christmas arrived right on schedule despite the fact I’d had my foot on the brakes for weeks. It slipped into the house like an obligation and has fled almost as quickly. We set it up, put it out, ate it up and then got the hell out of Dodge. It’s done and I’m glad. We […]