CLEANING HOUSE, pt. 1

A few days ago I ran five miles and began sorting boxes. Gary emptied the attics last month. Six months ago I began running again. Two years ago I decided enough was enough and I would eat better and lose some weight. We began isolating from Covid in March 2020. All the boxes stored in …

CALM DOWN

Maybe I should keep it to myself. But no, that would not do. I read most of it aloud to Gary. Then I composed an email, but kept adding to the Bcc. So here. Here it is. It's unlikely that any (none?) of my family will read it, but sending it as a link in …

QUIET QUITTING

[intended as] First post in over a month. Retirement, running, carving, canning, Facebook, and reparations, in no particular order. And the skink. Many teachers retire with hundreds or even thousands of hours of unused sick pay. It's not that we have not been sick, it's that preparing our classroom for a substitute teacher and then …

BLUE DOT

A friend of mine, someone I know only through our mutual blog posts and a handful of emails, the exchanges of notebooks and weaving... lives in a deeply red community of a deeply red southern state, the one blue dot in a red sea. She has found herself in situations where people say what seem …