This morning an email from the UK. It was the greatest compliment I have ever received my whole life, I think. It is from a man who does not give compliments out easily and so…
This from a UK friend, from 2017. He was away from his computer and came back to a month of blogs which occasioned his comments about the length of them. It is so funny, as…
I am a graduate of the University of Alberta, hence, get emails from their site. This edition celebrates the the awarding of a Killam annual professorship upon Lisa Strohschen a U of A sociologist. She…
Yesterday morning I awoke at 5:30 in a totally bad mood, for many reasons. My hot water bottle leaked during the night – now often I say that I prefer hot water bottles in my…
Faithful readers will remember R from the blog of October 13, 2019. To quote from the beginning of his unsolicited text: “I think I might have fucked up the most intimate situation in the universe….
Scene: Apartment in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. Writer In Bed with Ice Machine on Right Knee, Weather Conditions: Foggy, Windy and Cool. Writer, alert, has been so for hours. Personal Driver transported her in pre-traffic…
I awoke to the most touching email, sent by a staff member at the Presidio YMCA, my new ‘home’, my new oasis. . My first visit was Saturday, my activities included a water aerobics class…
In all innocence I moved into an apartment that was equipped with Netflix. It has proven a disaster because I went from an “I never watch TV” snob to a binge viewer. I suppose, at…
It feels like yesterday was the beginning of the next chapter of my life. It was so perfect, so rather ‘normal’ – whatever that may mean. It was the Presidio YMCA that was the oasis….
The Setting: This rather has to be seen to believed. It is a sunny, windy day in San Francisco. Today is Fleet Week so supersonic jets fly overhead making commanding, deafening noises which are oddly…