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The Veterinarian Witch
I took my young cat to the vet on Tuesday, just for his annual exam and vaccines and such. Have I mentioned that I’m pretty sure our veterinarian is a witch? I love our veterinarian. She looks to be about 600 years old, is less than five feet tall, and has the high crackly voice…
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Odds & Ends
We’ve been watching the Marble Olympics in my house. At first, I was about as excited about the Marble Olympics as I am about the actual Olympics, which is to say not at all. But oh man, once you start to get attached to a marble team it’s a whole different experience. I am now…
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The Blog Can Be Anything
I mentioned last week that I had become obsessed with a mausoleum I found while wandering through a cemetery a few weeks ago. This mausoleum family’s story is both fascinating and tragic, and there really is enough here for me to write an extended piece on them. I could include all sorts of interesting facts…
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Sick Days
I was sick all weekend and am just this morning feeling like I have turned the corner back to the world of health and accomplishments. It’s amazing how overwhelming life is when you’re sick. I would lay on the couch and picture the healthy people of the world going about their day–loading groceries in their…
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Planned Obsolescence
I took my kids to the playground on a weekday afternoon last week. I sat on the bench in the cold air hoping the sun would warm me up a little and had a realization: I am no longer needed here. This new phase of life has really snuck up on me. There were many…
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Odds & Ends
Did you know that nine- and eleven-year-old kids still expect to receive an Easter basket on Easter morning? This did not occur to me until recently. I get lulled into complacency by the fact that we’re done with indoor playgrounds and the constant supervision stage; I forget that some childhood embellishments last much longer than…
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For Better or For Worse
Does anyone else still read and love Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse? I’ve been reading For Better or For Worse since at least 1992. It was always one of my favorites, and I tended to relate most to the daughter Elizabeth, although she must be almost ten years older than me. She too…
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Lament of an Old Person
There was an article in the New York Times this weekend about how modern light bulbs are so energy efficient that we no longer have to turn the lights off when we leave a room. I read this article with a sense of dread building in my belly, and I knew by the time I…
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The only way to win… is not to care.
I play this stupid game on my phone called Gardenscapes. It’s one of those match three games except with a bunch of bells and whistles and opportunities to spend real money to buy in-game currency. I downloaded it in June 2020, and have been playing off-and-on ever since. I am on level 4,351. The whole…