Two years ago or so, my mother, who was already mostly blind from macular degeneration and was suffering from increasing physical frailty as well as a spiralling…Continue readingMy Mother’s Salt
I’ve wanted to see the Aurora, the Northern Lights, all of my life. I never had a lot of chances – and the one time I came close, on a…Continue readingFire in the sky
We all have a cutlery drawer in the kitchen, right? Well, mine is weird. The forks partition has the six forks that came as the set which is in daily…Continue readingThe mystery of spoons
I dream solid chewy dreams, and sometimes they turn into stories or even novels (and once a trlogy) but often they are just things I remember clearly and almost verbatim…Continue readingI am standing
So here’s a thing that is relevant to what I am about to tell you. My mom was always *tiny*. She never weighed more than some 110 pounds soaking wet,…Continue readingMy mother’s “glad rags”
As Meatloaf once sang it, objects in the rear view mirror can appear closer than they are – and 2023 (soon to be in the said rear view mirror) is…Continue reading2023: in the rear view mirror
oh lord, it’s time to go running around changing all the clocks again. Look some people are afraid of the dark. I get it. That doesn’t mean that the dark…Continue readingTime enough…
Let me share the sorrows and the joys and and the triumphs and the tragedies of this year’s Orycon, now that it is in the rear view mirror. Orycon was…Continue readingSo, Orycon ’23…