Working Friday

I had the day off from my regular job, but my editing job was very busy today. There are some school deadlines on Nov 30, so a lot of things are on my plate. I still have a few more to do over the weekend. But this morning, I did a 2.5 mile hike and…

And just like that

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I’m happy about that because it means that I have the next two days off. It’s not a big holiday for me or my family and hasn’t really been in the last few years. Sometimes we do traditional food, other years not so much. I hope whatever way you choose to enjoy…

Crying

I know I missed yesterday. I just plum forgot! I think I’m up to two posts that I owe. As my birthday approaches, so does all my angst. I’m not sure if that’s the right word for it. Melancholy maybe is better. Low. All day, I’ve felt on the verge of tears, and several times…

June Swoon

I only had one post in May, a book review. I wanted to write in the last week of May about the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, about Palestine, about the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, about the discovery of 215 Indigenous children’s bodies found in a mass grave under a residential school…

Almost six months

***Long post*** In a “normal” time, this Friday, September 18, I would be getting on a plane with my sister for our first trip to France (Paris first then the Riviera). The Paris days were our own, but the Riviera days were to be spent with a group to delve into creativity. This trip was…

Book-alikes

This term is one I just invented for the phenomenon when you are reading two different books that you didn’t know anything about, just selected them each randomly, but then the books have many similar characteristics. Case in point, I just finished two different books, but here are their similarities:1. Mostly set in New Hampshire…

quick check-in

COVID-19 still here. Surging. Most schools in SoCal will be doing online remote learning this fall. No sports. No in-person live music. No in-restaurant dining. There are MANY people who ‘don’t believe’ in wearing a face covering. It’s mind-boggling. Protests still happening, surprisingly unrelated for the most part to the surge in the virus. There…

it feels different

long post warning Before COVID-19 became part of our everyday energy, back in February, Ahmaud Arbery went for a jog in Georgia and was shot dead in the street by a citizen who claims he thought Arbery was a burglar. As the first stay-at-home orders were being considered, in mid-March, Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend…

April recap

Whew! I did 30/30 y’all! And I even did it in the allotted timeframe! I don’t know that that’s happened in quite a long time. Of course, by posting only poems mostly, you missed out on the other stuff I did, though, honestly, sometimes the poems were or described what I did. But here’s how…

pandemic roller coaster

hello fellow isolated humans! In the evening of March 19, the same day as my last post, the California governor issued a stay at home order for the state. Here’s what that means: Okay, so this information wasn’t necessarily new, but now it was mandated. Though there isn’t any law enforcement around the rules (yet),…