Category: The Daily Grind

Garden-variety musings

My Skill Set

I often feel that I don’t have any particular talents any more. What I used to know (e.g. as a radio producer, web consultant and ESL teacher) has fled the muddy depths of my brain and/or is obsolete. But it occurred to me just now that I am indeed expert in one thing: worrying. I wonder if I can package and market that, or otherwise get paid for it. Oh, I’m also quite good at […]

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Oooops

Home again (as of the day before yesterday), and missing Small. I hope Covid allows me to return to Delarovia before the end of the year. We’ll have to wait and see. As I told you, American Airlines once again messed up our seats, moving Lulu and me apart at the last minute. She was assigned a nice one with extra legroom, while they stuck me in this weird little row only two seats across […]

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Be Calm

A friend who will remain nameless told me the other day that I seem to have a shorter fuse than I did years ago, and that I get more easily frustrated. While I know this to be absolutely true, I was dismayed to realize I wasn’t hiding my impatience better. Even strangers are noticing. Let me tell you a story about that. As you know, after my car break-in a few days ago I felt […]

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Bigfoot

Two evenings ago when I went out to my car to run an errand at REI, I was dismayed at what I found. A few hours later I posted to NextDoor (as did someone with apparent fog-control concerns). Car break-in: Just want to let you all know that someone broke into my car (no windows bashed, yet the car was locked) in the last 24 to 48 hours. It had been parked in my driveway. […]

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