Every holiday season I coordinate a long-distance holiday card exchange with folks who love getting and sending holiday cards. Several participants asked for some additional joy. They miss the delight of opening the mailbox — and let’s face it, with nowhere to go, it’s a nice little delight to punctuate the day. So here it […]
My lunker day kind of is turning into a lunker week. I’m finding it exceptionally difficult to rally and honestly to care about stuff. I don’t know why the fellowship thing is bugging me as much as it is — I guess maybe because I had allowed myself to imagine it and to believe the […]
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
I didn’t get the big fellowship either. For perhaps the first time, the quarantine/shelter in place situation has kind of gotten into my brain. Between the hopes getting dashed for an exit out of Nevada via a sweet waterfront home to the idea that it might have been partially funded and with a tremendous honor […]
The little bulldog is coming on two years old in a few weeks and considering he’s a rescue from an unknown provenance (other than “somewhere in Kansas”) he has turned out to be a pretty good doggo. He’s attached to me in a way that is kind of ridiculous and adorable — he sits under […]
When we first moved to Las Vegas, we lived in a very $$$ new area of the greater metro area. It is called Mountain’s Edge because it was literally smushed up against the edge of the valley. We lived in a gated community that, judging by the sheer number of Latter-Day Saints temples within walking […]
Plans are such silly things. Plans are a tiny prayer that you have any idea what the future holds and the hubris to put actual mental effort against that assumption. The universe hates a spoiler. This entire year, nay, this entire last four years, has been Han Solo walking down a corridor saying “I’ve got […]
I was a weirdo at the beginning of March — I have spent so much time with my head buried in how pandemics work, how diseases spread, how viruses replicate, how to build the perfect pandemic, etc, that as soon as I saw the virus leave China, I started having panic attacks. I was supposed […]
Hello from our new normal. Hello, person on the other side of the screen. I am on this side. You are on that side. We are keeping each other safe this way. Thank you for keeping yourself safe and for keeping everyone around you safe by doing the right thing and staying in your homes. […]
