Hand Offs

Fulfilling my Lenten vow only sort of, inconsistently, is actually a great measure of growth for me. Yesterday in church a little girl in the pew behind me was having trouble using her voice at a volume that the adults were comfortable with. I handed her the case for my headphones. It’s round and has […]

Okay Patrick

I coughed and sniffled and had a bit of achiness and a wee fever, so I kept myself home for three days. Was I thrilled to be stuck at home when the weather was great? No. Was I happy to miss class again? No, that was another anxiety surge. Is it nice to read about […]

Sick Day

It’s okay to miss a day. Yesterday I got a sniffle, then a cough, then fell deeply tired. Then I missed everything today. I didn’t freak out too badly about the corona virus, or Super Tuesday. Grace, I guess. That, and my fever, never high, abated. I don’t have hypochondriacal tendencies, but is a little […]

3: Miranda to the Future

Yesterday Miranda was uninterested in her wet food. She ate a little, then she went back to her chair and her stuffed manta ray friend, Mr. Ray. I was shaken. She was dying. She is dying. She’s lived with me for about twenty years, and she wasn’t a kitten then. She’s not take me to […]