I caught myself in a Big Procrastination today. Yes, we all have little procrastinations. I often procrastinate cleaning the kitty litter because, after I clean the kitty litter, I clean the bathroom – and who likes cleaning the bathroom? Not me! (True story – I used to host dinner parties every couple of weeks because …
The crazy critter in this photo is Pam. Pam loves boxes. We have many many photos of Pam sitting in boxes. She currently has two boxes in play: an old box from a case of matzoh and a shipping box from some Christmas present someone ordered online for us. But truly, any box that comes …
I have been meditating a lot lately on safety. If you asked me what I fear, I don’t know if I could pinpoint something in particular – a fear of catching Covid, a fear that the government will collapse, a fear that my colleagues will figure out that I really have no idea what I …
I was on the bus once, a city bus in a neighborhood with a lot of affluent older white people. A crowd of people got on, loud teens, laughing. One of them stood out, a really large African-American man, baggy pants, stretched out t-shirt, long jacket, hat turned to the side, big chains, larger than …
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 …
