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 […]

The Woods

In some ways, I have been preparing for this disaster all my life. My first catastrophe was my parents’ divorce. That wasn’t a happy thing, but it was the first time my entire world changed, and I had no control. What I did was retreat further into books. Become as self-sufficient as possible. I was […]