Category Archives: REALITY

When I quit smoking I thought I’d have a lot more time and energy, since it wasn’t being spent on wrinkling. It’s going to be a day of odd thoughts I think.  Yep, odd thoughts and musings. Continue reading →

Mornings dark and the room still grips the cold night that snuck in through the open window.  Kitchen lit in eerie fluorescence that slips into the shadow of the wholeness of the house.  Midday sun beams down in toothless smiles, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For me, peace.  A small bit of peace and the peaches.  Peaches in cereal and milk in a breakfast bowl.  A peach after lunch.  Peaches on ice cream and when there are still much too many, a kuchen, a cobbler, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Every year around this time (though it happens during other seasons as well) I get a headache and it usually takes me several days to remember that despite no other symptoms–runny eyes and nose and sneezing–it is some form of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It must’ve been the chocolate cupcakes, or maybe the wine though I switched to wine coolers after the first glass. And I danced.  In a room where the walls doubled and glowed with the drums the guitars the strong female … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Party tonight–niece Alycia’s 21st birthday and there’ll be dancin’, loud music–my brother-in-law’s band, which is good, three or four singers and John plays guitar, harmonica and sometimes a fiddle.  Not tonight though, not tonight.  Tonight’s for the young to get … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Summer winding down, picking out a half a dozen trees to paint with yellow, orange, red.  Dried vines still hold a few winter butternut squash, the leaves that hid the blossoms in a jungle long since gone.  You have to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It used to be you could end the summer with the happy thought that come September, Ed Sullivan would still be smiling from his Sunday 8 p.m. slot.  Now we’re left in May and June with cliffhangers that were frustrating … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you have the choice, choose b) Any Other Way. I can’t even tell you how the absolutely idiotic  system Federal Express uses has frustrated me since last week.  I’ve been sitting home since Thursday, afraid to go out, watching … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Good grief, I think I’m drunk. After siphoning and getting that first mouthful of wine a few times and tasting just to see how each wine is progressing and not wasting that teeny tiny little glassful that just won’t fit … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Moving wine from one carboy (glass jug) to another to siphon out the clearer wine, attempting to leave behind the lees (sediment) at the bottom.  The wine is still working (fermenting) at this point ( 3 weeks) so that the … Continue reading →

There’s a testimony to love and marriage on Loretta’s Pomegranates and Paper that gives a realistic view of what a long term relationship means. Here’s my show-don’t-tell:  Yesterday’s e-mail from me to Him at work: There’s a dead mouse in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Odd day today, Him stays home, not feeling well.  Don’t count on Federal Express who sneaks up to your door when you’re in the basement, whispers hello and hangs their door tag on the back of a bush.  My moulding … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am very pleased to announce the winner of the "Find the Bug in the Brew" contest: Carolyn of For Chameleons.  Unfortunately, she responded too late and the bug, I believe a forty-legged besotted beetle of some sort, was quite … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A lovely ride up to the airport on an autumn early Sunday morning.  Through a small crowd of road race runners in Simsbury, avoiding back roads past the local airport where planes are putting on an airshow and from the … Continue reading → Continue reading →