I once had a quick text conversation that stays with me; it was about types of visual art. The friend I was texting with puts abstract art on her walls that I don’t like, myself, but it’s not my house, so who cares? She also has begun painting with watercolors, as have two other newly […]
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An Imperfect Life Is Made from a String of Perfect Moments
Last week’s blog entry about regrets is valid. As is the pretty-much opposite take, that being aware of tiny moments of perfection allows you to make a necklace, of pearls and gems and found shark teeth and tiny shells, that makes life as beautiful as I am wistful. Problem is that it’s hard to remember […]
Maybe If I Consider the Maybes
A year ago, we were still in the trailer, in the campground in Wisconsin, looking for a house to buy. Maybe, if we’d spent less time house-hunting, feeling like the summer was a ticking time bomb, and more time finding a sustainable apartment (or rental house) that wouldn’t suck our souls from our very throats […]
A Year off the Road, a Month of Reckoning, Part 1
I have a new plan for this blog. Yes, no surprise there. But, hear me out. Because I’ve been stymied by that manuscript I have in the works, and because these entries here continue to be easy to write, I’ve decided to write the manuscript here. Terrible idea, I know. AI will steal my words. […]
Making Connections in a New Town
My assumptions about making new friends and how that’s actually working out.
Come for a Visit in Madison!
Get a snapshot of the near-east of Madison, Wisconsin, presented by someone who doesn’t know what she’s talking about (me, who’s lived here for four months).
What It Feels Like Here in Limbo
I used to know that I would be happy if I could just relax. For even a few minutes. I would sit on the sofa and read my book, lazily. I would watch TV beside Tracy, calmly, quietly. If I could only be still. What kept me from this was terrible restlessness. A friend recently […]
Conflicts of Psychic Interests
It’s been more than a month since I took a break here, so it’s time to check in. But, I’m still of several minds re: what to write. The Conflict Do I provide cheery stories from when I had Finn—and several friends—visit for almost three weeks: loved ones surrounding me back to back, stellar summer […]
What If I Insisted on a Dressing Table?
That’s what I said to Tracy this morning, as we were getting out of bed and talking about disentangling our insurance woes. My mom had a dressing table—that’s what we called it, but really it was a nook off the bedroom of the house where I grew up, between my parents’ walk-in closet and the […]
FOUR-inch Hail, and Other Larger-than-life Numbers
4 -inch Balls of … These photos of snowballs are not snowballs at all, they’re balls of ice, aka hail. Hail that fell on us for a few minutes a week ago. Some of these balls were made from several small balls smashing into each other and compacted into one, until they became so heavy […]
