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…
So many things swirling right now. That tightfaced idiot of a Susan Collins who voted in that monster Kavanaugh because he and Trump had “learned their lessons” and Roe…Continue readingWelcome to Gilead
They were doing something “in memory of”, at the Hospice House where Deck died. If you went there as a drive-through kind of event they’d give you a little potted…Continue readingSo, today. Flowers.