winter’s cold
… but God has blessed me far beyond imagining and keeps me warm and safe. specifically tonight, with two cups of tea and six inches of blankets.
summer’s coming, winter’s running …
song for the day: “summer’s coming” by sean watkins, from the album blinders on it’s still spring — a fact about which a friend and i were arguing the other day. but the days are getting longer, the air is heating up, the bugs are coming out, and vegetables other than cabbages are being harvested. … Read more
ashes, ashes
current tuneage: great lake swimmers, lost channels currently reading: deuteronomy just for the sake of clarification, this is what’s going on in my brain. no cancer, no tumor, no life-threatening condition (at the moment). the risk of something going wrong just increases 2% every year it goes untreated, so the likelihood of that happening would be much … Read more
kindred spirits
as a fan of l.m. montgomery’s anne series, i’m also a big fan of kindred spirits (“two minds with but a single thought,” and all that). i had coffee tonight with one of my kindred spirits, miss b. well, okay — ostensibly we had coffee, but she actually had earl grey and i had hot … Read more
coffeehouses: blackdog
a good latte is hard to beat. tomorrow i’m meeting a friend before work (or school, in her case) at blackdog, one of our favorite local coffeehouses. in kansas city we’re lucky to have a number of good coffeehouses — this one just happens to be close to both of us. they serve very good … Read more
