“Winter” “Woes”

[Why are both words of the title in quotation marks? Because it’s not really winter, and these aren’t really woes. I mean, technically, it is winter, according to the calendar, but it’s a woefully weak one so far. And these are woefully weak woes to be experiencing during a woefully weak winter. But let’s getContinue reading ““Winter” “Woes””

Sometimes You Have to Look

I see a lot of things on my morning walks. Just this month alone, I’ve seen… …an armadillo rooting for grubs… …a cicada shedding its shell… …a big toad sprawled belly-down on a wet sidewalk… …a raccoon sneaking around a garbage can. When I post the pictures of the critters I come across, people areContinue reading “Sometimes You Have to Look”

Pandemic Painting & A Better Year Ahead

This weekend I sat down and re-read my journal entries from March through July of 2020. I wanted to re-experience those first few months of the pandemic, to see it again from a little distance. (I stopped at August because I wasn’t ready to revisit the school year again.) It was so surreal reading myContinue reading “Pandemic Painting & A Better Year Ahead”