My original entry title was going to be, Another One Bites the Dust, but I sort of recalled using that title before. So I searched – and yeah, I’d used it before, in 2010, 2008, and a variant in 2011. Oops. We hit the ground running this morning and kept at it for a long,…
Auld and Nouveau
Happy 2022! Given the worldwide trajectory of the past few years, we’ve been saying it under our breaths, as if wishing will somehow jinx the entire year. Instead, I choose hope: hope that intellect will win out over ignorance; that love will win out over hatred; that responsibility will win out over rampant disease, climate…
Boxing Day
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. Ours was a bit hectic, but generally good. I spent most of the day in the kitchen, and had to have G’s help for part of it. I just can’t do some things any more. My body points and laughs when I try. I’m still hoping for retirement…
Tic Tok Tuckered
I’m glad to be done with the COVID quarantine. Only the remnant of a cough, which is probably more asthma than virus, anyway. I’m still wearing a mask, though these days they say you need to get a mask on steroids or not bother. I’m definitely over the entire pandemic, in all its life-screwing-up iterations….
Still A Round
Thanks to my kids sharing COVID with me, I haven’t been able to take our furbaby to the vet, which is unfortunate in so many ways. Doggo wasn’t eating at all for the better part of a week – a bite or two here, turning up his nose at food there. G is doing everything…




