blue days and runaways
Do you ever want to run away from your life? Your 'precious, human life,' as the Dalai Lama reminds us...? Leave the whiney dogs that will NOT go outside when it rains, the cats that throw up in front of yo

posted 5:05:16pm Mar. 08, 2014 | read full post »

working back in
The problem with living in the moment is when the moment kind of...well, let's just say some moments are better neighbourhoods than others. Right now, mine is pestilent. As in, still flu-y. So in the spi

posted 6:41:09pm Mar. 07, 2014 | read full post »

on flu break
This message is brought to you by the miracle of modern medicine, and the unfortunate strain of flu NOT covered in the flu shot. And yes, I'll still get the flu shot. The doc swears it would be lots worse if I hadn't taken the shot. How, I'm not sure. Last night my fever was high enough I halluci

posted 12:12:54pm Feb. 28, 2014 | read full post »

modern medicine and everyday miracles
So remember the scratchy throat I was fighting? The beautiful grandson who was spewing germs as he laughed and climbed me like a mountain? Flu. Yup, flu. Thank the universe (and modern medicine) for Tamiflu. Not only do I have grandson duty: I also have a pretty important date in D.C. next week.

posted 4:25:04pm Feb. 27, 2014 | read full post »

viral moments and metaphors
Those oddly shaped, colourful objects are teethers. My grandson is teething. And (gross-out alert) he's also blowing mucous in large quantities. Some is the result of teething -- we had hoped it all was. But my aching bones, need for a nap, and incipient low-grade fever remind me that the daycare ye

posted 3:31:46pm Feb. 26, 2014 | read full post »