A Murmur

I’m now living the life I imagined I should. I get up, spray the plants, feed the cats, make the coffee, and write. It used to be harder to get out of bed. It isn’t, now. I have two horseflies in the house. They are horse-sized, but as you may not know, I live in […]

Up the Hill

I hadn’t been outside my house in… seven days. When I’ve been sick, I probably stayed home that long. I might have stayed home that long. I poured oatmeal into boiling water, and then said to myself, could you get the trash out before the oatmeal burns? I ran the trash out. This is a […]

Hawks and Robins

We’ve got birds here. They are the only regular visitors. I wonder when, and how, we will forget this. The best time is cleaning. I can’t settle enough to read yet, but I can write, virtual visit, cook, and clean. Another way I was unwittingly prepared for this is that since I’ve been in grad […]

Gravity

Are you Sir Isaac Newton? You are not. I like the story about Newton and the plague. Sometimes weird circumstances unlock new ways of thinking, or seeing. That’s good stuff. I am still not quite ready to jump into more serious creative work. (Working on essays for publication, working on one of the books I […]