Much activity since my last big post in March: house-hunting all around northern California, kitchen counters installed (complete with defective sink that spits boiling water droplets back into one’s face), nerve ablations in my twisty spine, massive deaccessioning of long-loved belongings, a garage sale, pottery classes, yet more hours in the dentist’s and periodontist’s chairs, elementary school field trips, the sudden demise of my two-year-old icebox and also of both toilets, and the puzzling together […]
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Garden-variety musings
Tilt-a-Whirl
“I would never want to go through what you have to,” I insisted. My friend and I were commiserating about our respective challenges in life. Among hers are frequent and debilitating episodes of vertigo. Clearly, the universe, in its infinite cruelty, overheard me. A few days later, in the wee hours of the morning, I awoke to a world spinning violently. “Maybe it’ll go away,” I thought, returning to sleep. But each time I opened […]
Read morePrinderella & the Cince
Last week when I left TJ’s I brought home a videotape she and I had recorded together in 1993. I remember it consisted mostly of us hamming it up for the camera, performing antics that at the time I believed to be hysterically funny and clever. Dying to see it again so many years later, I had it digitized. Must’ve been a different tape. In this one, all we’re doing is running a series of […]
Read moreAll the Way to Jackson
Thursday, November 18 The view out my front window first thing this morning: How inconsiderate, entitled and/or clueless, and it happens constantly. I know, I know: what do I expect when I live in a city? And what’s the big deal anyway? Who cares? Well, I do. I’ve encountered three types of parking violator in my driveway: Those who nose into it just enough so I can barely see past them when backing out into […]
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