My dinner Saturday night came with three fortune cookies, all apt for looking back at the year since I retired. I did take the chance to leave full-time work and strike out on the vagabond trail with my little trailer. I’ve not been daring enough to do any boondocking on my own, so that’s a…
Month: August 2017
Weekly Update: Aug 16, 2017
Still on Cape Cod, still doing hand therapy twice a week plus self-guided sessions 4x a day, still doing beach walks. It’s been a fun place to hang out, and if only I didn’t have to do all the hand stuff, I’d probably say it was a beach bum week with great sunsets. The one…
Seattle by the Sea
It’s been a year this week since I left Seattle after four years of living and working there, and I do miss it. Summer is a glorious time in the Pacific Northwest: blue skies, blue water, cool breezes, and sunshine. From October to May, it’s grey skies and gloom, but the summer makes up for…
Sunday Serenity: Grim Reality
I have been reading the news and my heart just can’t make sense of it. Why on earth, in America, do we have neo-Nazis giving salutes and fomenting hatred of others? And why, in America, do we have a President who will not call them out for it, who does not say this is completely…
Color
I just watched a short video of Jim Carrey, the artist (yeah, also the actor and comedian) and it was fantastic to watch him playing with paint and color and form. It’s a short video, and I highly recommend watching the six-minute video if you need a boost, creative or otherwise. It inspired me to…