start & finish

I witnessed the beginning and end of a nun’s life last week. At the monastery I regularly visit, they had a transfer in, who did a slightly revised Final Vows (as she was already a nun, but with a different order), and the parts of a nun’s funeral, from reception of her cremains to burial […]

It’s a couple weeks into the developments of the second coup attempt (successful?). Who knows success any more, and what it might signify? I make myself tap my feet and move the hips for a little longer to the music that isn’t my favorite. But it’s good to dance with a man who looks like […]

SNowed in

It’s a shit season to be a resident of the United States, but it’s a good day to be a public school teacher, who has the day off for weather. Happy Epiphany, and let’s pretend Trump isn’t about to pardon all the January 6th criminals. Let’s say a public school teacher attended a funeral, and […]

drugstore

Last weekend I went to buy decongestant. The good decongestant, the one they use to make meth, the one with the sly name (pseudoephedrine), can now only be purchased from the pharmacist. I walk up to the drugstore doors, and see the sign says the pharmacy closes at 6. It is 6:08. Well. Now I […]