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This is the first time I’ve sat with a coffee, in public, in however long. Fifteen months? Sitting out at coffee has been part of my identity for at least twenty years. It’s the reason I have friends, I have at times not surrendered to depression, I have felt cared for, I have learned my […]

I found it odd we all faced the same direction, where there was something pretty, yes, but not overwhelmingly so. When I had arrived, I had to fill out my name, and get instructions on where to sit, how to do. Then I was in church again. You never thought they could take church, singing, […]

Hand In

How ridiculous I was when I was a puppet! Myself as the Holy Roman Empire. Those who (while visiting a foreign country) have lost the end of a Q tip in their ear and have been unable to explain their problems Something people don’t know about, though it was important. Something that was held together […]

Rain

I was holding my cat, looking in the mirror at her, and behind me I saw motion. A leak from the ceiling onto the middle of the living room rug. Very 2020 of you, ceiling, I said. Though I should have castigated the roof and the attic. I did my usual walk to coffee and […]