Muffin was our very dear family friend’s very special and surly cat. Although Muffin made her journey across the Rainbow Bridge recently, no doubt to be delightfully surly to the others there who await us, may she live on in the hearts of those who loved her, and may she be forever immortalized here. I…
Month: April 2020
Plague Days: Geaux Away
Those last days downtown before we were all WFH were bizarre. It is just as fascinating as it is terrifying, being right in the middle of a Huge Change, a shift in the collective reality. This was actually happening, this virus-induced retreat to our homes, and I was watching it happen live and in person….
Plague Days: Making Do
Last night I finally hit a moment in all of this where I just felt really sad and really tired. Not physically tired (although I was that as well), but soul-tired. Exhausted from the media bursts, exhausted from all of my underlying fretting and worrying, exhausted from missing regular life. What toppled me over that…
Plague Days: Home Work
I haven’t worn shoes in 6 days. I work barefoot. I run around the house barefoot. I do all my gardening barefoot. I also just had to count back to the last time I left my house, in order to determine how long it’s been since I wore shoes. What day even IS it? It’s…
Plague Days: Standing on the Neutral Ground
A couple of days after Shit Got Weird, I was downtown and at work as usual. We were up to our necks in Business Continuity Planning, wrangling all of those things that the company had to do in the background to ensure we could start minimizing employee presence in the office while attempting to keep…
Follow Your Crazy 