These are things I was used to that I no longer have to deal with, so each annoyance is like a poke in the eye. I am missing the northern li...

Lunch break. Day 1. (Subbing for 2 weeks to make some money and, evidently, FIX EVERYTHING.) The air conditioning is out. It is 90 degrees i...

It does feel like the past 6 months were a dream, except for the jarring irregularities. The house, although obviously cleaned for my arriva...

I filled the bird feeders, shut off the breaker to the hot water heater, unplugged everything, said goodbye to the crows, locked up, and hop...

I am going back over to the neighbors’ house for supper, this time with a chocolate haupia pie and a self defense bottle of diet ginger ale ...

  I went to the neighbor’s to give them my phone number in case my house combusts while I’m gone and now I’m drunk. And I have agreed to go ...

As I was hauling myself up a rope along a vertical muddy path covered in fresh moose poop, it occurred to me that I should have told someone...

I worried a bit that I might actually be lonely, once I was faced with a dark night in a quiet house, but I am a house cat of a human being....

    Everything went okay. I kissed the girl goodbye, waved her and Mike off at the airport, went out for Chinese buffet with Laurie, lost my...

Some time last week my phone buzzed: it was a ‘hey girl’ text from an ex. I have exactly one ex who would send a jolt through me if I heard ...