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 […]

2: Swan

I started at some point thinking more seriously about animals and symbolism. When I was in New York City, I met this amazing group of older women who met weekly to meditate and write and chat about religious and spiritual stuff. Also we had wine, and I brought a chickpea salad from the deli across […]