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Every morning I unlock four gate latches to get into the kitchen, where I make myself coffee. I’ve been waking up at around 5 am, much earlier than I’d like, but my body bolts awake with a low level anxiety coupled with a desire to have this time to myself before everyone else is upContinue reading “Home Sweaty Soapy Home”

Early harvest: spinach, lettuce, radish, peas. Usually I wait until Mother’s Day as the unofficial start of planting season in our hardiness zone but decide to get an early start for my spirit and body, as a healthy distraction from daily stresses that are compounded by the week. Digging in the dirt is so therapeutic,Continue reading “planting seeds”

I’m still reeling from the sad news that my beloved Uncle Dick died. So frightening how swiftly the virus moves in those most vulnerable; the only good part is that he wasn’t in pain in the end. I’m trying to extricate his long happy life from how suddenly it was cut short, the tragic endContinue reading “a gentleman and a scholar”

Now that I have your attention…and yes I’ll bake anyone a pie who responds to this once it’s safe to share food. Like most everyone, the loneliness and isolation is getting to me so I’d welcome hearing from anyone out there. Our days alone are long. Grateful for nature and the great outdoors, which haveContinue reading “Complete this Brief Quiz and get a Free Pie”

Week 2 OK is derived from oll korrect in 1939, when there was a trend for playful abbreviations with intentional misspellings: k.g. (know go) for no go, and o.w. (oll write) for all right. These terms were a precursor to our current online slang of lol and omg. OK was the only one that stuck,Continue reading “OK”

It’s Sunday and we’ve gotten through the past week, a very long week punctuated with acts of kindness, moments of connection, and a backdrop of everything in bloom. It is definitely a time to practice both/and thinking, as I hear the therapist/columnist Lori Gottlieb (in response to being publicly chided for tweeting a joke) discussContinue reading “What is good”

Kitchen Table Lesson of the Day: The Effectiveness of Soap to Fight Germs How are you doing out there? Welcome to the club. For everyone for whom social distancing is a new phenomenon I hope you have enough of what you need to survive: food and TP and medication and your mental health intact, whichContinue reading “Join the club”

Coming in from walking Ruby, she hesitates when we get to the house as she contemplates the steps that await her. She occasionally stumbles or loses her balance lately and needs a gentle nudge to make it back inside. She’s slowed down so much that a walk around the block can take a half hourContinue reading “old dog. no tricks.”