Category Archives: REALITY

Now that we’re old–and evidently, forgetful–we’re into the 7-day pill cases to hold our hoard of daily drugs.  Actually, most of them are vitamins, supplements, stall-off-old-fogey-hope pills, but I take about 10 a day, and Jim, five regular but others … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Money and campus rights were the topics of mind today. So January and now February I spend running around spending health care money from the flex-spending account because even though it’s our money, if we don’t use it by March … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hanging on by my toenails to some semblance of sanity here.  Another pipe leak in the cellar, and we’ve had the water shut off since last night–luckily not the heat as well.  We’ve made a conscious decision to hold off … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m beginning to think that I don’t belong in this world, or maybe at this point in time, and that perhaps my records got screwed up and I was supposed to be sent to Mars but for a typo. Just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Never really noticed before, the daily quotation on my home page.  But today’s made me pause: That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Does this look healthy or what? That’s right folks; despite decades of no breakfast, often no lunch (unless the spirit moves me or sweetie-pie makes bacon and eggs for weekend breakfasts), I’ve adjusted to a high fiber, nutritious bowl of … Continue reading →

Weird dark garage thoughts this morning (if you’re fairly new here, you may not know what this means) about time and space and how they are dependent and yet independent of each other. It occurs to me that the only … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hush…our first winter storm here in Connecticut, an inch of white that yet managed to lay upon the limbs and branches to make a wonderworld of winter.  And on the road, a good quarter inch of sand. Open in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Finally remembered not to eat or drink coffee first thing in the morning so that I could go for a blood test where fasting was required.  It’s just a checkup to see if the drugs are working, but it’s three … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Never been one to put stock in New Year’s resolutions, but using it as a mandate, a plot plan, can be helpful in breaking away from habits that aren’t necessarily bad, but as time grows short, wasteful. Cutting back on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How rude the dawn, ignorant of our needs to boldly blast its way into the darkness of our minds.  How crude, how primitive; unwilling to adjust in synchronization of the modern world’s new sense of time. To rise not to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So here it came, sneaking in when our guard was down.  Winter snows–all fifteen minutes of a blizzard. Yet there are some who never sleep; town sandtrucks out to cover all the roads before the last flake fell.  Amazing. Continue reading →