Question:
If you were given the option to pay taxes, would you? Continue reading “About masks: freedom, choice, and hearing loss”
Category: coronavirus
WEIRD – it’s not what you think
Blogging from my outdoor office
It feels like Friday today.
It’s not Friday…not that it matters, really.
I do what I do and I do it day by day by day by day. (Doug and the Slugs)
Today I had a bunch of hurdles preventing me from moving forward on multiple projects.
Living in a bubble
Disclaimer: I’m feeling sorry for myself. Don’t be rude or obnoxious in the comments, I’ll block you. None of my self-absorbedness in this post means I’m not anxious or active in other, more important things going on in my family, community and beyond. This post isn’t a tally of what I do for others; I don’t feel like justifying myself to anyone today. This is my blog and today, this is what flows out of my head and into my keyboard. Sorry not sorry.
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Some days I feel like I’m living inside a bubble.
I don’t mean to imply the bubble is an isolated, lonely entity of solitude, because there isn’t much of that despite still staying home most of the time. I just mean the lack of external obligations has me more isolated than usual, and for longer than usual. Continue reading “Living in a bubble”
Loosening the clutches of lock-down
I guess summer vacation came a bit early this year what with the school year disrupted since March.
I think technically, the kids are done this semester. Most teachers expected final hand-in of work by June 12 and the remaining two weeks are used for finalizing report cards.
So the kids, already on a reduced schedule, have had quite a bit of free time just as phase 1 of reopening began.
Well.
The end (or beginning) of another school chapter
Today, I took a kid to school to clear out her locker.
Continue reading “The end (or beginning) of another school chapter”
How an open day became a busy day
As I was sipping coffee on my back porch this morning I thought to myself: today is wide open with nothing crucial going on. I could spend all day writing, reading, napping, relaxing.
That didn’t happen.
It occurred to me just now that between yesterday and today I shopped at four different stores.
And none of them were food stores.
Can I just say UGH ? (I hate shopping…)
Yesterday wasn’t bad. We went to a garden center which also had accessories and outdoor furniture and knicknacks and a little clothing section with Made-in-Italy dresses and…
I bought one. This one:
Early morning ponderings…
As we grudgingly endure ongoing sheltering-in-place here in Toronto, life among nature is continuing as it always has.
Prevaling introversion
I remember now why I evolved into introversion over the years:
I don’t want to witness, be surrounded, or entertained by idiocy. 😳
A surprise adventure (part 1)
Yesterday, on a whim, I contacted our dog-owning friends to ask them a question.
“Will you let me kidnap your Schnoodle?” I asked [not so] innocently.
This Schnoodle:
