“You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike.” There are so many different paths to follow, and they all get tangled up into a knot. Some of them only call with whispers, while others yell and shout loudly to keep my attention. No matter what path I head down, I always end up […]
Category Archives: Life
‘Tis the Season
The gift-giving season, that is. For our family, it starts in September, really, and runs all the way to March, after which our family gets a nice reprieve (except for Kender’s birthday). Birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, every month, one after another. If you speak of friends, we have birthdays year-round, of course. But then there is […]
Uber Driving
Probably the most interesting thing to happen around here in the past few weeks (besides birthdays, which really aren’t mine to tell anymore) is my new income stream as an Uber driver. If you haven’t heard of Uber yet (or Lyft, or Sidecar), it is a ride-sharing service. Uber provides an interface and payment system […]
Nothing to Say
I have no desire to step up on a soap box today. There’s the whole “We Want to Celebrate Colonization of the Americas” day thing, but I don’t really feel like digging into it. I can’t think of anything that is bothering me more than the ulcer that currently feels like it has actually poked a […]
Bad Comedy
I’ve been told before that I should write a book about my life. All the strange and weird things that cross my path and keep changing my fate ought to make for interesting reading. Right now, I think it would make a bad comedy, to use a friend’s words. Suspension of disbelief in the audience […]
Getting to Know My Enemies
“Perfect is the enemy of good.” That image of perfect comes from so many places. Books and movies, holiday parties, even memories. We whitewash our memories, change them, push away the bad parts and amplify the good parts. When I do that, and then I try to hold up as a standard my memory of […]
Living Vicariously
A friend of mine recently moved to a new house. She used to live in our neighborhood in a tiny house, and they were getting pretty crowded with all their children and dogs. Their new place is a beautiful house with artistic architecture on a wooded lot outside of town. She has big, big windows […]
The Crazy Season Begins
Resetting the calendars to October always brings home the fact that the crazy season in now upon us. Here come the holiday decorations, three months of beautiful neighborhood displays that get bigger and brighter every year. Here come the birthdays, four birthdays in as many days just in our house, plus more birthdays of family […]
A’Kos Visits the Renaissance
The Michigan Renaissance Festival is open for only one Friday each year. It is School Day, an opportunity for area schools to organize field trips in the name of history. Tickets are half price for groups that purchase in bulk ahead of time, coupon books provide a little food discount, and the actors tone down […]
Sleepy
Getting up at seven in the morning really doesn’t agree with me, and yet I keep making commitments that require this ungodly hour of rising. All the right people sleep until noon. What am I doing getting up at seven? Classes for this, classes for that, appointments, field trips. I really think the Renaissance Festival […]