It’s a glorious spring Friday in Oregon. The sun is out, skies are cloudless and cerulean blue and there’s a gentle breeze ruffling the budding leaves on the lilac bushes. It’s absolutely gorgeous outside and a perfect 75 degrees. We’ve been inside on Corona lockdown all week, so I finally kicked the bigs outside to …
Homecoming, Homeleaving
We’ve all been mentally preparing ourselves for leaving Idaho this week. We thought we had til Tuesday, but Melissa’s office called a mandatory meeting with OSHA on Tuesday morning, so today it is. It’s 2:34am and I’ve been staring at the ceiling for two hours. I honestly have no idea how to sort out this …
Good Friday
It’s Good Friday and I feel every inch of that weight in my bones today. I am physically spent, having endured nearly two days with a blinding migraine and what I’m fairly sure is turning into a kidney infection. I am emotionally withered, having used the entire week helping to make arrangements and phone calls …
Kill Bill
Anger has never been a good emotion in my book. I try really hard to keep my temper and to not say things intentionally hurtful in my anger. I screw up all the time, sure. But I’m usually aware of it and I honestly can’t remember a time where I got angry and didn’t feel …
Sugar & Salt
Pandemic life is like an episode of Chopped. I’ve got four types of pickles, half a sugar-free cherry pie, a bag of frozen chicken strips and leftover fried rice. Mm mm tasty, sounds like dinner. It’s 7pm and I just realized the kids haven’t eaten. Pandemic dinner rules are straight outta Lord of the Flies. …
Exponents
A hundred childhood memories of rosy-colored lifeA thousand bits of crimson-coated adolescent lifeA million times you tried to do the very best you couldA billion times I tried but failed to love you like I shouldOne blondie girl with green eyes just like youA hundred times I wished I knew just what on earth to …
Screw You, Harriet
If you or someone you know has had open heart surgery, you’re familiar with the heart-shaped pillow the hospital gives you to protect your sternum post-op. Using your arms to push/pull/lift/grab is suddenly waaaaaay more complicated and it’s really important to protect the new bone knitting itself around your heart. Your bones keep the heart …
Tsunami
In the movies, disaster strikes and the people panic. There’s a 75-foot tsunami rushing towards New York and people decide to scream and run. Because, really people? Your three foot long legs aren’t outrunning that water. Your car can’t move fast enough to escape. What you should be doing is gathering the people you love …
Love Is A Verb
When I was young I thought that love Was just another noun Like coffee cups or windowpanes Or something carried ‘round Love didn’t earn a capital like A holiday or a town It slid into your pocket and was Simple to set down But now I’m old enough to know that love Is not so …
Thomasina
I’m a nerd on a pretty large scale. I loved school and college. Business trainings were always fun for me. And my answer to the “If money were no object, what would you do?” question is always, always, “Spend the rest of my life in college, changing majors every four years”. Like Batman, but brains …
My Five Ring Circus 