When you ride the same train every day, stand in the same spot to wait for it, you tend to get to know the people who also ride the same train every day and stand in the same line to wait for it. You also get to know the peculiarities of that station’s particular etiquette. […]
About this time of year, I start to itch for travel. I want a weekend away, or a road trip or an adventure. It’s the same every year. The middle of February brings with it a need to do something, anything, as long as it is away from here. For a lot of years, I […]
When I was still in high school, someone from the church we were attending found an old typewriter and had it cleaned up and repaired and I found it under my Christmas tree. We were barely making ends meet, and with little money left over for gifts, my mother had reached out to the church […]
Happy Saturday, Readers! I hope that you’re safe and warm and out of all of this crazy weather! Here in Northern California it’s been very wet and colder than we’re used to, making for good times to stay inside with a good book and a cup of tea. I’m now a week + out from […]
One of the things I had to give up when my back and my feet became too painful to support me adequately, was walking just because I enjoy walking. In fact, I had really started to hate walking, and how it made me feel. There’s nothing enjoyable in the pain that radiated out of my […]
I was startled awake at four AM this morning by gusty winds outside my bedroom window. I had been aware that we were expecting a significant storm, but the reality of it was a bit jarring as I was waking up from some scattered dream that I think was about getting arrested. My dream life […]
Ever feel like your just stuck in a rut? Or just stuck, minus the rut? I’ve been feeling that a lot lately. Like my life has become this endless routine, and I’m trapped inside it by all of my anxieties and even by my own nature. It doesn’t help that my day job can get […]
