The last ten days or so have been busy in a mostly good way but a way that didn't leave me much time...or bandwidth...to post. I'll try to catch you up in one monster post. We'll see how that goes ( Read more... )

5. Watch at least two movies per month except for July 2021 and April 2022 when one movie will be sufficient. Maintain list of movies watched, July 2021 to June 2022.

As you may recall, I didn't manage to watch my one July 2021 movie during July, so I gave myself a pass and allowed me to watch three movies in August, one of which was a second ( Read more... )

John is picking me up tomorrow about 10:00 a.m., and we are driving up to Reading, PA, (pronounced Redding) to see my oldest son, David, in Reading Hospital. This will be the third Wednesday in row that we have gone up to see him; he is in very poor condition ( Read more... )

I lived all my life in one house or another, with a few brief exceptions. Owning the house I lived in was a live-long goal, and I was an over-achiever. We lived in the house on Fairdale Road for 25 years and on Lombard Street for 37. Fairdale Road was a two-and-a-half story row house; Lombard Street, another row house, had three-and-a-half stories ( Read more... )

Yesterday my youngest son, John, picked me up about 10:30 a.m., and we drove up to West Reading**, PA, to see my oldest, David. He has been at Tower Health Medical Group Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation for at least two weeks now: I'm not certain when he was first transferred there from Reading Hospital ( Read more... )

I am fully vaccinated, so I should be livin' da life again. Mostly, however, I am not, so I don't take pictures. No pictures? No posts. I think of myself as a word-nerd but...this time it's been almost three weeks since I last posted. Oy. That puts my word-nerd-hood in jeopardy, for sure.

( Last session of this round of physical therapy. )

My alarm went off at 8:30 a.m., as always, and I was actually out of bed and on my feet before 9:00, which is pretty good for someone who is not a morning person. I was motivated because I wanted the apartment tidy, if not clean, before John got here around 11:00. Then I sat down at my computer and wasted an hour of prep time looking at, first, the ( Read more... )

Yikes! It's been nearly two weeks since I posted here, perhaps because those were two weeks when I stayed self-quarantined and not much happened until the weekend, a weekend almost like old times, thanks to two of my sons ( Read more... )

Which is not to say I've gone wild and crazy but I did go ( Read more... )

Even though politics have been an important part of my life...my parents argued over politics at the dinner table year 'round even though they were both Yellow Dog Democrats**...I rarely discuss them here. Right now, however, I'm going to talk about Philadelphia politics specifically, thanks to an article by Nick Corasaniti in today's New York ( Read more... )