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Housekeeping
There’s something wrong with my blog. See my comments there? Your names and links to your blogs are no longer appearing. My theme is no longer supported, so I need to poke around and find one that I like. I’ve tried a couple now, and even some of the new ones have this same issue, though others do not. So I apologize if you get notifications that things have changed (I don’t know whether that happens, or if you would only get a notification of a new post…) While I’m at it, perhaps I will update the photo that pops up when I comment. That one is from my 40th…
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Friday Book Blogging
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson ~ This book has several short stories and one novella. I listened to it via my Libby app, free from the library. I think I found it doing a search for books with Monticello, after my BFF Rosemary went there a couple of years ago, and found the tour depressing and disturbing. I can say, I LOVED this book. And I loved listening to it, because the first story is narrated by LeVar Burton. The first story, Control Negro, is about a professor who wants to study racism by clinically observing a young black man whom he knows to be decent and good, and…
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Songs About Relationships
I’m not sure if I have mentioned it here before, but my husband Ted has a music podcast, Planet LP, which has morphed over the years. When he first started as a way to entertain himself and stay creative in the early days of the podcast, he talked about music and books. Then he took on a cohost and the format turned to music only. Eventually, his cohost realized that he was too busy for the commitment, and is now an occasional guest. At one point Ted’s podcast was once a week, but when he started at his current job, he realized he had far less down time than his…
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Land Mines
This morning I woke up from a disturbing dream. I was sitting at an outdoor cafe, and my friend Katie, along with some family and friends, walked past on the sidewalk, pretending that they didn’t know me. I caught up with them, and asked one of the friends what was wrong, why was Katie mad at me? “Because you didn’t bring a gift to her funeral.” Oh. Rats. I should have done that. Wait, I DID bring a gift…I brought a framed photo of Katie and Janet and me. Perhaps my card with the gift had gone missing. I was so sad to have Katie mad at me. Later, her…
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Friday Thoughts
I saw this sad little vase of flowers on my sad lonely walk the other morning, and it felt right to me. I feel flat and sad without Mulder. It’s been two weeks now since he died. I know that we did the right thing, but gosh, it still hurts. It is, however, getting a little less painful, a little easier. I no longer expect to see him when I come downstairs. I no longer think he will come put his chin on my knee and beg for dinner every day at 4:30, knowing that dinnertime isn’t for another 1/2 hour, but hoping against hope that I have forgotten how…