End

We packed up and cleaned out my dad’s office, ending his legal career and small business ownership of 47 years, the people in and out of the doors were his children, family friends, and a colleague of 40 years, and a wife, and an ex-wife. All my life dad’s office existed, a third place where […]

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 […]