And this still life is life still! The least Monday feeling Monday I’ve ever had. Got dressed up to walk with KP to Walgreens to buy wipes yesterday. That was my weekend. Date night at Walgreens. I am sick of being fish bowled by Zoom. Anyone? Bueller? I am realizing what it may have felt […]
Always knew there would come a time when we would have to cook for ourselves. Today is that day in New Orleans, restaurants having gone on hiatus for the time being. Waiting and uncertainty are some bitter sauces to stomach and there seems to be more of these at the table nowadays. I recommend turning […]
Dessa, the rapper/philosopher/dark-diva made this great point last night at the Castle in Rochester, MN that because the gravity on the moon is one-sixth ours here on Earth, her tits would look great there. Alas, we live where everything is heavier. In the same poem she describes the sinking feeling of letting bathwater drain around […]
Mardi Gras time in New Orleans! We are headed toward Deep Gras when everything is closed for business except Food, Music and Parades. Our city is now descended upon by revelers from far and wide, burgeoning fuller by the minute. Costumes are the new dress code. As the human equivalent of a hairless cat thanks […]
Parade season is here and now and the streets are alive with costumes and floats, the sidewalks a scurry of ladders and lawn chairs and strewn beads, the restaurants full and hotels booked! So important to schedule rest into the wild pace of Mardi Gras for locals. I highly recommend staycationing as a way to […]
I could not think of a more perfect antithesis to the DIY ethos which dominates the blogosphere than the cancer experience. Cancer treatment is a season of not being able to do much of anything yourself. Really tough for the stubbornly independent. Therewith, giant, hard-to-swallow doses of humility have become the mainstay of my treatment […]
All things need pruning. Today it was the bonsai juniper, and in the quiet snipping meanwhile, sap-full fragrant bits of myself tumbled into the pile of bright green castaway clippings. The new year will be new whether or not we make it new, and after the tunnel passage experience that was the last week of […]
I’ve been on a surprising Dolly Parton kick lately. Whilst getting my teeth cleaned today, and just after learning that my saliva production is now “not normal” (cancer, what else will you take away from me!?) I almost started crying when from the dentist office radio I made out the lyrics of Hard Candy Christmas […]
We are getting in the holiday mood over here as a lovely denial of the chemo week coming tomorrow. Here is a random and possibly fated collection of goodies that have flowed onto my porch, all gifted. Consider paying forward kindness into your community and rounding up some of these gifts to delight a loved […]
What to do about the small block of cement that seems to have settled like a brick fog amid my intestines? Nausea is inertia. I have been searching for things to move me through this stormy weather. And then KP made this super easy Instant Pot curry dish that settled it. So delicious and apparently […]