Monthly Archives: October 2022

Note: As always, any character details have to be pastiched around with great care for everybody’s sake. A white Spitz might be borrowed from Chekhov, and might really be a red Pomeranian. Who knows? That sort of thing. If any … Continue reading →

This weekend a major self-cheering campaign was in order. Where to start?? Well, there is always some task worth doing, and always some person worth reaching out to for company. Well, there’s our good senior neighbor who makes her careful … Continue reading →

That was Wednesday’s alert on airnow.gov for the atmospheric presence of Fine Particulate Matter. For the day, the local news said we had the worst air quality of any city in the world. To be fair, it’s not yet winter. … Continue reading →

After work I should have walked home all the way. Instead I felt sluggish and heavy somehow, and couldn’t summon the enthusiasm to schlep along for 66 blocks with the usual assortment of Mason jars, library books, and everything else. … Continue reading →

There was nothing wrong with The Loneliness Sermon two weeks ago at the strong Bible-based church up the road. It’s just that I figured that The Sermon was a specialty for the Catholic and Orthodox instead. In this church I … Continue reading →