Mention anything out loud and someone will tell you there’s a Youtube video with instructions on precisely how to do it. Which is probably great, if you already know what you’re doing. Here I sit, with a Plumbing Problem or … Continue reading
Once again the news media’s limited attention span is aimed at mental health. This week it is tennis star Naomi Osaka’s announcement that she is taking a break from her career, stating she has suffered from depression and anxiety since … Continue reading
Now that we’re fully vaccinated, we’ve been slowly easing our toes back into the stream of Socializing With Other People. It’s been weird! And great! And weird! Last Friday night, we had a couple over for dinner. They are some … Continue reading
Right outside the front door of our house–well, across a little stretch of lawn, fifteen or twenty feet maybe–we have a pond. It was one of the many things we fell in love with when we first saw the house. … Continue reading
When my husband was still in charge of the remote control we fast forwarded through all the ads on the things that TiVo taped for us to watch. He was positively allergic to those things and there were many (annoying!) … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) Spring in New England is a shambling walk to summer. Warm days stumble into light snow, fall over into rain reminiscent of November, stagger back upright into warm sun. Rinse. Repeat. It doesn’t stop the flowers. … Continue reading
We committed social gathering yesterday. 6 people, four fully vaccinated, 2 partially, all of a generation fully cognizant of the risks and generally sensible people, but with the frustration, grief and monotony of the past 14 months getting the better … Continue reading
Oh look, another glossy magazine article about lovely Orcas Island! You’d think the island would be used to this sort of thing by now, but this innocuous, perfectly decent little article has occasioned a great ruckus on at least two … Continue reading
More than a decade ago, Deck and I made a trip down to California. We flew down to San Francisco, did a few bits of official business there, and met up with some friends whom we had known since,um, the … Continue reading
I just committed unnecessary travel during Covid. Interesting that the word “Covid” has become a noun in itself—one doesn’t need to add “era” or “pandemic” to it any more. It’s Covid and everyone knows what that means. An adjective or … Continue reading
