At last, tomorrow is the start of Ember’s and my long-awaited camping trip. I’m excited. She’s not. That’s what she told me, with her usual honesty, during a video chat last night. Eleni says Em alternates between anticipation and anxiety. She seems wary of leaving the familiarity of parents, sibs and pets. Indeed, they’ve been an exceptionally tight-knit unit during their isolation for the past 1.5 years of Covid. Their attachment to one other must […]
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On the road
My Skill Set
I often feel that I don’t have any particular talents any more. What I used to know (e.g. as a radio producer, web consultant and ESL teacher) has fled the muddy depths of my brain and/or is obsolete. But it occurred to me just now that I am indeed expert in one thing: worrying. I wonder if I can package and market that, or otherwise get paid for it. Oh, I’m also quite good at […]
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Home again (as of the day before yesterday), and missing Small. I hope Covid allows me to return to Delarovia before the end of the year. We’ll have to wait and see. As I told you, American Airlines once again messed up our seats, moving Lulu and me apart at the last minute. She was assigned a nice one with extra legroom, while they stuck me in this weird little row only two seats across […]
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Our final day in Delaware began with the usual gallons of tea and coffee. Molly resurrected the Valley Garden Park cicada shell from the day before yesterday and adorned herself appropriately. Then, some last errands. First stop: the jewelry store to drop off Ma’s 50-year-old Swiss watch to be fixed and to buy a chain for her rabbit charm. We also brought in the fancy necklace that Dad had given her for their 50th wedding […]
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