This morning was chilly again, due to all the rain. Winter in Florida has always been a crap shoot of temperatures, but at least the fact that “big rainstorm means a cold front” has held true even with all the climate change non-sense going on. I was, at least,...

If you’re curious, I write these missives by the clock. Not at a specific time, obviously, but for a specific length of time: ten minutes. Sometimes I go longer (rarely) and occasionally I run out of steam before the timer is up. But it’s ten minutes, give or take,...

It does feel surreal to be back in March again when for most of 2020 we all felt like we never left it to start with. The lockdown here in Tallahassee began on March 18 so we’re not quite at the one year mark, but we’re close. My employer (FSU) is determined to let us...

Today I thought it was Sunday and I was right! *pumps fist in triumph*Yesterday…was not a good day. Headaches and a small anxiety attack kept me at home and in bed for most of the day. Did not do self-care beyond that, but sometimes, retreat is what is called for and...

This morning while walking — headed on back roads over to Red Eye Café plaza then up 3rd to Monroe — I thought to myself, “wow, it is super busy for a Sunday! Look at all of this traffic!” Which is when I saw that Red Eye is, in fact, open. It is not open on Sundays....

I know what happened to this tree. I know it because I’ve been walking around Lake Ella park nearly every single day for going on four years. At least, on average, six days a week in every possible kind of weather Keely and I wander around and sometimes look at...

I looked like a damned fool during our walk this morning, making all sorts of weird facial expressions as we tottered around Lake Ella. It was early, as I have moved up my alarms (for reasons I might explain some other time) so we were thankfully alone. Still. It was...

This morning’s walk was not as early as I planned, but the trade off was catching a bit of sunrise over the trees: Mostly unretouched! A bit of sharpening and a crop. Shots like these make me wish I could paint! Keely is now two weeks out from her surgery, and as...

My weekend flew by on the wings of malaise. Politics, weather, pandemic, and fandom wank threw me down with a choke-hold and I mostly laid about blinking at the walls. Cooked, posted here and at A Skeptic’s Inspirational, engaged on twitter, watched a movie…so, not...

I was lucky enough to get to sleep in again this morning! Keely bounded up on my bed at around 6 am but then she flopped onto my legs and went back to sleep. I can take a hint, so I did the same!When we finally got out to walk at 8 am-ish, it was sunny and a few...

Last night I very nicely asked Keely to let me sleep in until 7 am so we would not be walking in the cold AND the dark, and since she’s a dog she did not understand a word I said. However, at 5 am I convinced her to cuddle up with me and go back to sleep, so in the...

This week got away from me, but then, over the past year I’ve run up face to face with the artificiality of time. How is Monday intrinsically different from Thursday or Friday? Even when I was “jobless” back in 2010-2012 I was in grad school with a structure of class...