Just got this book in the mail yesterday., FDR'S Hundred Days And The Triumph Of Hope. So happy to think about a better hundred days, constructive, finding ways to make hopeful lives for more people, in tough times, decades on. Underscore Social Security. The New Deal. And in our time, the Living New Deal and … Continue reading The Defining Moment

My bedroom window faces east and all I can see are the big trees out there. They are magnificent, huge. It's been mostly sunny lately with some calming storms at night. Coming into the right time of year. So very peaceful. I get more serenity than a lot of men, women, and children do. And … Continue reading I Love Mornings

I've always loved dogs. Took their ashes through TSA. A really nice TSA agent had to open the boxes, and just said that's what a golden and a shepherd collie look like. And she smiled. Right now it's not practical to adopt another dog. But Miles and Gunther left ashes, on my bookcase now. In … Continue reading Oh No I’ve Become A Cat Lady

It's absolutely gorgeous. Sun, no rain, no wind. Trees full. Tulips cut and delivered, thank you good family friend. And bike back up on the wall. Crazy Kat knocked it over. Because I put him out at 2:00 a.m. when he was nuts. Still going to walk. Doctors and nurses told me this is a … Continue reading Mothers Day

I'm kind of annoyed today. So I've got a blog and I can spew. Fifteen minutes max.. No spewing today. The maintenance guy very nice....they always are....really put in the effort to get my kitchen light working again. Now I can cook. I'm back to veg, but things are working. so I can do my … Continue reading Apartments

There's much to be concerned about these days. (These Days, Nico, played that CD over and over. It's probably in storage now.) Meanwhile, summer on the way. Write as much as I can, get outside, move. This is my time of year. Sunlight earlier, sunset later, on the mansion street where I live.(I surely do … Continue reading Gardens (And Garden Stores)

Easter. Should be cleaning up, and I will do, but mostly gave myself a peaceful spring day to read Ezra Klein's and Derek Thompson's book Abundance. (At least part of it. Finish it. There's a lot to take in there.) (Derek Thompson has long been one of my favorite journalists, but I didn't know until … Continue reading Abundance

I've had a lot of transition last few years so finding isn't always easy. Right now I'm looking for my first writing check from the Chicago Tribune, my son's Saturday night poems (pretty insightful for a five year old) and my own six year old portrait, long hair, pony tail. Fancy dress. Old Polaroids. Yup … Continue reading More Found Small Things

What a senseless dunce-o-autocrat running this spectacle. Daily Show, hilarious and days later I'm still getting a laugh this morning. Those penguins will punch back. What can the penguins do. Sell cuteness. But with a reciprocal percentage tariff. Oh and the uninhabited islands' tariffs. Can we spell stupid. Si se puede. Selling out our European … Continue reading Tariffs On Penguins

And I say it's alright. Just enormous, huge. Sunrise through my bedroom window. Trees still bare but soon they'll start blooming. Weather here still chilly, rainy, stormy, sometimes then you get a 73 sunny day. And outside my front window, oh the dogs, happy walkers taking out their humans. Could they be more adorable. Nope, … Continue reading Here Comes The Sun