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When I hit a wall, I hit a wall. Tonight, it comes at 7:36pm. I promised myself one activity only each day. I slept nine hours last night. Woke up and alternated between reading and writing all [...]

Everything changes. I have three weeks until I travel – possibly for two readings in Oregon now, in addition to the residency – and I must be well before I leave. I make a new rule: Only one [...]

The verdict is in: walking pneumonia.Which explains, among other things, the utter fatigue I’ve felt at the keyboard when I sat down to write for the past three months.Today I ushered Dean [...]

Sorry no post last night – got home late after helping a friend and hit a wall of exhaustion. The strep throat is not strep throat and not responding to treatments. I go see the MD tomorrow for [...]

The phone rings at 8 am. “Hello, Katey?” says a stranger’s voice. “This is Penny, your postmistress.” She speaks clear as a bell but in my morning fog and with her true-thick accent, what I [...]

Almost one year ago to the day, I visited PD just a hop, skip, and a jump along the slopes of Roan from the house I live in now. I traveled there with another teacher to visit she and her [...]

The mechanic is really quite breathtaking, which makes the $50/hour labor rate a little easier to swallow. Her hair is cut boy-style and dark brown, matching dark eyebrows and lashes. This makes [...]

Strep throat. Clutch cable on Volvo snapped.

I’m on a meditation retreat this weekend but couldn’t find a computer last night to say as much. No posts until I return.

Sometimes I feel painfully different than my peers. I go to the auction at the craft school and everyone is in their truest form. Picture a dance hall with hardwood floors and metal folding [...]