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 […]

Lent 1: Ash Wednesday

It feels right to do the practice of posting every day for a while. Maybe until Easter. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. As much as I enjoy Mardi Gras, it is also, when the rubber meets the road, stressful. I get anxious about having all the stuff, about if I will be anxious, […]