Last week I posted that I was out of blueberries from my parents’ yard to put in my oatmeal. This week they are magically replenished.

Cats tend to adopt you when you aren’t paying attention. My mother belongs to this cat. She is called cat because she is just a stray. She lives outdoors, you know. She doesn’t even like to come inside if you try to bring her in when it is below freezing outside. You can see just [...]

I think that’s called positive visualization, but if it worked a whole lot more people would be winning the lottery.

The Importance of Elsewhere by Philip Larkin Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home, Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech, Insisting so on difference, made me welcome: Once that was recognised, we were in touch Their draughty streets, end-on to hills, the faint Archaic smell of dockland, like a stable, The herring-hawker’s [...]