We went to Chicago on John’s birthday, but we didn’t get to see John. We had tickets for the opera, Tosca, that’s really long, two intermissions. It started at 7:00, so we made a dinner reservation for 5:00, thinking maybe they could join us at the restaurant for a drink if the timing worked out. … [Read more…]
So I have been cooking, honest, and have even been feeling like there have been some of those tiny victories, using up leftovers, making tasty things that everyone eats, learning how to use the new oven, I just have not been taking many pictures of the food. If food has been made and eaten and … [Read more…]
I felt so shitty when I was writing Friday night. I’d eaten too much and not gotten enough done at work and just generally felt deadlines and fat phobias and stuck-ness and pandemic blues crashing down on me. I was headachey and my stomach hurt and I was cranky and tired. And there was a … [Read more…]
Here in this (almost unbelievably) 3rd spring of the pandemic, it’s different now, especially when you are choosing the right thing to do, also the title of book my brother wrote, almost 25 years ago. I mean there’s not that crushing fear of getting sick, like there was in the first months. Even more I … [Read more…]