I’m starting off a little more political than my usual but promise to wind up with food and grandson pics. After Trump got elected, my two pieces of black humor were: 1) I’m just waiting for planes to start falling out of the sky when everything’s deregulated; 2) I wonder where the Jews are on … [Read more…]
Of course I’m feeling kind of limited by my broken wrist one-handedness, but I’m looking for the upsides. And musing on which is worse, all the time I spent limited by my knee injury that dragged on for like a year and a half, on crutches, off crutches, on crutches again, followed by limited walking, … [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…]
This week … Russia invaded Ukraine. In the light of that, how can any of my personal distresses and kvetches matter. I mean, no one’s dropping bombs on my house, there are not tanks rolling down my street. But yet, here I am, entangled in them. We had Twos-day (02-22-2022) and everyone made a deal … [Read more…]
Oh, hey, hi – remember me? I’ve been not doing a lot of stuff recently … not taking pictures of cookies, not writing blog posts, not keeping track of what I’m eating and how much I’m exercising in my diet & exercise app. Some days I walk 5 miles, some days none. I have been … [Read more…]
… but I forgot. It’s been that kind of a week, meetings, like the one on Thursday talking about are we going to Fall conferences or what; getting our AFS student registered for school and starting running; grad student problem emails; updating syllabi … wondering what the hell is going on, both weather-wise, and pandemic-related. … [Read more…]
This afternoon for about an hour it just kept getting darker and darker, and there was even a little thunder, but no rain. I mean, now it’s raining hard AF, but there was a long threatening period. Kind of like dozens of other threatening things hanging over us now. I think I’ll just post a … [Read more…]