On weekends, my sister and I do jigsaw puzzles together. She’s at one end of the country, I’m at the other. We don’t schedule it much in advance just, do you want to puzzle today? Tomorrow afternoon? Ok. We put on Facetime and put the devices to one side so we can look at each …
I often have problems connecting my laptop to the internet. I blame the laptop (although the laptop tells me that the problem is my router). I blame the laptop because none of the other devices in the house – my husband’s three laptops, my work laptop, our smartphones – have these same problems. When I …
I feel like I’m ready for a change. I suspect that a lot of people are feeling this way right now. We’re tired of the sameness; the same drivel on TV and in the news; the slow drip of poison of the elections, ratcheted up to a new level. We’re tired of seeing the same …
Last year, I signed up to work the polls. Yes, it was boring. There was a boring half-day class in how to do the job, and then a full day of sitting around being bored while I waited for people to come in and vote in a simple off-year election. Like most of us, I …
It’s rainy this morning and a little bit cold. Very much like it often was when I was in high school in the Pacific Northwest. But, although rainy and a little bit cold perfectly describes most of the mornings when I was in high school, the chill and the sound of the rain here now …
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