Everything is intersectional, even if you only look at how something will affect you, there are always still multiple aspects inherent in any action.

Italian plums remind me

life is not stationary

I wish I had gone

You know that famous saying that starts with, “First they came for…” and ends with “…and then they came for me”?

You probably know someone who writes notes in the margins of their books.

Woke up from a good sleep after dinner out with family last night.

Letting go of needing your mother’s approval

I watched a woman become irritated with an older man, perhaps her father, during breakfast at a local cafe.

I transferred my mother’s ashes today.

A woman I used to know was quite adamant about cream being appropriate only for coffee.

July 2026

There have always been evil men.

Remember laugh tracks?

the man

While watching a scene on an episode of season two of “The Agency”, I noticed how the thin linen drapes blowing gently into the room through the window to the right of a female spy sitting at a table,...

Language is always evolving.

-friend 1 called and asked if I wanted to get fancy coffee and go for a walk

John Donne told us that no man is an island.

recently an older

My mother’s ashes sit along the wall in my studio apartment in a perfumed box inside a clear plastic bag tied with a red bow.

half a world currently

I turn 70 in two weeks.

(candy from Chatham Candy Manor)

the opposite of terror

I’ve always prided myself on being able to make a magnificent meal for friends even if there is next to nothing, or what many would consider to be nothing, in my fridge and cupboards.

I have a tiny vacuum that I use once in a while on the carpet in my small studio apartment.

February is done