During our video chat a couple afternoons ago, granddaughter Ember was asking little brother Jesse to turn off the sprinkler so it wouldn’t get the phone wet. I couldn’t see where the faucet was, so I asked Ember: “Where do you turn off the water?” “Same place we turn it on,” she replied quickly, probably wondering why I would ask such a dumb question. I mean, where else would she turn it off? Further questioning […]
Read moreMonth: June 2020
Day 103: Gone but Not Forgotten
You may remember, from the early days of my time with sweet Bessie, my concern about her possibly being a pit bull cross. Then (as now) I acknowledged my flaw of being breed-phobic. I also told you that my mother bought me a doggy DNA kit (from a company appropriately called Embark), to find out if my concerns were warranted. The results arrived today, far too late to make a difference, but fascinating nonetheless. Not […]
Read moreDay 98: Bessie Update
I said I would stop counting the shelter-in-place days on this blog, but I changed my mind. Yesterday I did go ahead and donate the rest of my dog possessions to Amanda, the woman who runs the rescue from which I got Bessie. I’d sent her an email asking how Bessie was doing, and learned that the fosters have decided to adopt her. That is the best news I could have hoped for. But it’s […]
Read moreUmpiness
It’s Day 92 of the Bay Area shelter-in-place, but I have decided, finally, to stop counting here on this blog. What you don’t know is that I’ll continue to keep track in my paper diary. What for? Well, what else is there to do? When one of my kids was wee—I think it was Molly, or was it Eleni?—she used to sing the Everly Brothers’ classic: Bye bye love.Bye bye umpiness [emptiness].I’ll see you later. […]
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