…it was the second year without Deck and for some reason it hurt worse than the first. Maybe the air is getting to the wound or something. I’m staring down…Continue reading2022 in the rear view mirror…
…it’s snowing, and moreover it’s sticking, and moreover it’s going to be very very cold over the next couple of days so it’s going to freeze solid andit’s going to…Continue reading’tis snowing…
I still remember vividly the first Halloween I had in America – the way Deck took a gleeful delight in initiating me into Northern American rites and traditions, his absolute…Continue readingHalloween…
Just recently, when Elizabeth II died, there was a story out there about someone going out to “tell the Queen’s bees” that she was gone. There was a distressingly high…Continue readingTelling the bees….
There’s a Lithub article, referencing the grief people feel on losing beloved animals, a “good grief” as it happens, an inevitability of loss when you give your heart to a…Continue readingDisenfranchised grief
BVC Announces Forever Is Shorter Than It Used to Be by Alma Alexander Well, it’s here. “Forever is Shorter Than It Used To Be” is now available as paperback or…Continue reading“Forever” is here…
So I did a series of “book and scarf” packages not too long ago, matching one of my books to a scarf I’d hand-lnitted which seemed to have a commonality…Continue readingWrap up warm, and keep on reading…