This is the year I’ll become a winter person. Nothing like a pandemic and the prospect of six months confined indoors to open me up to new (previously dreaded) things. Winter is normally my season of woe: the long stretch of shorter, darker days that make life feel like the ultimate “Why bother?” I’m afraid […]
Category: Rants, complaints, and grumblings
Anchors away
Life anchors should provide freedom, bravery and strength, not stuck-ness.
When No Means Yes
If I don’t matter to myself, how can I expect to matter to anyone else?
#Workfromhomelife
#WFH = time, space and boobs unbound
Storm clouds
Dire and damning. That’s what authority sounds like to me–and it gives me comfort.
Dancing when no one’s watching
Things to do during the isolation of pandemic: give up picking my nose, dance to WBLS as I work from home.
Going public. (part four of an in-progress series)
(Refresh your memory: Click here for part three.) I blame Sofie. I was nervous about sitting in the backseat of the Honda CRV. It was a two-hour drive from the Albany train station to the artists center. Sitting in the front passenger seat would isolate me from the two fellow residents in the backseat, […]
Wish granted. (part three of an in-progress series)
The first time was in the back seat of a Honda CRV. It was unexpected. I had anticipated the opposite that morning: the day was supposed to be the beginning of one month alone. Before the magic in the Honda, I arrived to the Albany train station and reminded myself that I had resolved to […]
Hospital food.
Papi and I have shared some of our best meals in Christ Hospital. On the heart-healthy dinner menu Wednesday, March 15: chicken, rice pilaf, green beans, whole wheat roll, vanilla pudding, hot tea, non-fat milk. Papi needed help eating all five days he was in the hospital. The gauze packed and clamped into his nose […]