Life Seemed Almost Normal

October 25, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

On Saturday I made a coffee cake. An “honest to God” coffee cake that filled the house with the fragrance of cinnamon and sweet spices. But baking was just as tedious as I remembered. For me, it has always been a means to an end: you bake so you can eat whatever wonderfully fattening thing […]

Hope and time in the Valley of Uncertainty

October 18, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

This week I had one friend tell me that she was on a media fast. Another wanted to escape to an island. And yet another is keeping her head down and plowing forward. And so I started to wonder: how are you coping? Together, we are all stuck in the challenging year of 2020. But […]

Count Your Blessings

September 20, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

I’m sitting here thinking I would really like to have a glass of wine to accompany my thoughts about the day that is almost over. Alas, the last of the wine went into the pasta-shrimp dish we had for dinner. What a sacrifice. Do your days start out with a blank slate and an imaginary […]