HOW WE ARE.

I’m fine, I’m okay, I’m okay, I’m fine. I’m surprisingly fine. I’m awful, but no awfuler than usual. I can do anything I want, as long as...

I’m fine. How can I complain? My salary still turns up in the bank on time. Food and beer and spirits are still within our means. Power...

Second to Last Day of Pride Month Listening to Polo G -THE GOAT on Spotify A little over 3 months into worldwide quarantine and social...

Photo by Sieg Mann It is a hard time to be an empathetic person. I am inundated, angry, despairing, and feel that I have no right to...

To some extent it was as though we were all living in a time that had moved backwards. America withdrew, counter-clockwise into chaos,...

Dear Jill and Nicole, Nicole asked me how I was over a month ago and I’ve tried to answer three or four times, but I never get past the...

Dirt of our Dearth I was hoping joy would overflow this spring as usual I’ve wasted another East Wind it’s been years since I could look...

I play this game with our cats: I blow soap bubbles with one of those little wands and watch the cats to try to grab the bubble....

Visiting Old Friends 24 June 2020 When you have a smart mouth like mine, you really have to get good at one of three things: fighting,...

These days, I’m knitting. Like, a lot. Like, maybe too much. I’ve made three-almost-four sweaters, and four tanks (I know they sound like...

June 20, 2020: I laid in bed last night and smelled, and the plastic smell was gone. Last night was when I noticed the plastic smell had...

unseen birds recite an aubade, I listen for a familiar voice. For the past few months, while I have been social distancing in NJ, words...

A couple of weeks into the shutdown due to the global Covid-19 pandemic we (my wife and two sons) settled into a routine.  Working from...

Today my oldest daughter brought over a cake. She carefully set the box on the pavement halfway up our driveway. She lives nearby and...

What Would Finn Do? Before schools closed in March, I had never seen a Star Wars movie all the way through. My partner, C.C., flew her...

My husband Bruce and I first saw this panel—one of two--in a ragtag sort-of-antique store in Charlottesville, Virginia. We bought both...

Dear Nicole, Wow. Hello out there. I thought I would have my reply to you the next day and here we are three weeks later, so I can begin...

There was a period when reading articles and listening to podcasts about the coronavirus seemed like overkill. Then there was the...

The house we bought in Madison came with a dilapidated screened porch, just off the dining room. The realtor and I spent several minutes...

Hole[1] Yesterday while I was walking Omar[2] up Cave[3] at about 11:30, I noticed a young man shoveling out dirt in the construction...