Blog 12, aka the Antepenultimate blog in my 14 blog series of “Good to Go, Hard to Leave” part of my Big Hairy Audacious Year Blog

The title of this blog, Antepenultimate blog, is one of the very few times I’ve been able use that word since I learned it in 11th grade. As I recall, it means next to the next to the last. Ultimate = last, penultimate – next to the last, and antepenultimate – the one that comes

Blog for my BHAY – Day 3 of “Good to Go, Hard to Leave”: Cats!

There were apartments available with more amenities, there were little charming houses for rent, there was an airBnB that would have been perfect for the long-term, but none of these are my future home. The cats are coming with me. Coming up this week is the the two year anniversary of them becoming part of

BHAY Blog 2: Better Living Through Cats and Chemicals

I have two cats. I’m very allergic to cats. Because of the contradiction implied in those first two statements, my life involves taking lots of drugs. They are allergy medicines, as prescribed my wonderful allergist, Dr. Joseph Rudolph. He casually drops hints that my life might be better without the cats, but I smile sweetly

Blog #24: The Real Reasons I’m Decluttering This Time

Yes, of course I want my home to be hospitable to visitors, and of course, I deserve an orderly, beautiful space in which to be at peace and live an orderly, beautiful life. More productive if I can find a pair of scissors, any one of the four pairs of scissors I know I own?

Blog Post #9 (formerly known as Blog Post #10): Friday the 13th

Today’s post is thirteen random thoughts and/or updates as I ran out of focus today 1.  My initial rapid Covid test today came back negative; I will get an email on the more extensive test results next week. In the meantime, back to more physical isolation, self-quarantine. 2.  Since “God is bigger than the boogieman,”