Lifestyles
I love my purple slippers. They are the best slippers I’ve ever owned, even now that they are three years old. They are purple suede slip-ons lined with fleece. They have soles thick enough that I can carry out the trash across the gravel driveway without bruising or soaking my tender feet in snow melt.…
Read MoreWhen I am asked, “Are you busy? What are you doing?” I usually respond, “Nothing. I’m not doing anything.” But having spent a week and a half on imposed “vacation,” I’ve discovered that I really don’t know, or have forgotten, how to “do nothing.” All of my claims of nothingness are lies. While I was…
Read MoreThis is a cautionary tale and not one about feather pillows. I recently wrote about my successful housecleaning foray, which happened a week ago and is only today being taken up again…. The action had to be paused because; (1) I had to spend time and effort congratulating myself on a decent start, (2) I…
Read MoreI’ve fooled some people into thinking I’ve been handling widowhood marvelously. They haven’t seen my house or my book-keeping. This is how people become hermits. They are so overwhelmed with the pile-up of daily chores and duties that things just seem to fall into ruin, and they are embarrassed to invite anyone over. Preparing for…
Read MoreI hear thunder coming. I knew it would. An hour ago, I sat at the water’s edge, looking past the mouth of the Rappahannock into the Chesapeake Bay beyond. A wonderful strong, humid breeze was sweeping the wisps of my gossamer hair across my sticky face, and I repeatedly swept them from my eyes. I…
Read MoreWaterfront living can mean many things. Last night, I watched for the umpteenth time, a lovely movie named The Secret of Roan Inish. It beautifully illustrated the ultimate scenario of waterfront living on a small, stony island off the coast of Ireland. The only neighbors were the harbor seals and the gulls. It’s a romantic…
Read MoreI’ve never seen a rainbow in the morning. Let me clarify. I have prisms hanging in an easterly window and a westerly window in my house so that I have “dancing rainbows” on the inside walls on sunny mornings and late afternoons. When I see them in the morning, I almost always exclaim, “Rainbows!” and…
Read MoreThe older I get, the more I see reality in all of that Science Fiction that I’ve been reading since I was about 10 years old. Surely, it is based on fact! I’m nearly certain I have discovered a couple of wormholes, myself. Although I cannot tell you where they go, I can tell you…
Read MoreI awoke this morning to an overwhelmingly gray sky, a gray world, and as I looked out from my bedroom window over the expanse of Perkins Creek, I reminded myself that it is a bright sunny day above the cloud cover. So bright is the sunshine on the tops of the clouds that you can…
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