More specifically, what the heck have I done in the last year? It occurred to me that last year's New Year's Eve post was mostly about what I failed to do last year. That fits my mood way too well, but it isn't good for ( Read more... )

Well, today was our forty-sixth wedding anniversary, and the first without ( Read more... )

Well, it's the start of a new year, so it's time for my annual goal-setting post. Or wishful thinking post, more likely. But anyway, here we are.
Hopefully 2022 will be better than 2021, but I'm not optimistic. I tried ( Read more... )

Hey, 2021! Don't let the door hit you on the way out. And I thought 2020 was bad... Last New Year's day I wrote:
I would like to think that 2021 will be an improvement on its predecessor, but I am not so foolish as to say so out loud for fear that it will be taken as a challenge.

It didn't work. A year that starts with an ( Read more... )

So this is my first Christmas without Colleen. I've already gotten ( Read more... )

As the title says, this was my first Thanksgiving without Colleen. Not the first time we were separated for Thanksgiving -- there have ( Read more... )

I appear to have been getting things done this month, but it doesn't feel like it. That's typical for me. Hmm. Let's see: grep grep grep... some cooking, a dentist appointment, flu and COVID booster ( Read more... )

Thanks to this post by @elf, we have a fascinating article: What if emotions aren’t universal but specific to each culture? | Aeon Essays. Apparently recent research contradicts the widely-held theory -- the article calls it the Basic Emotion Theory -- that a small number of "basic emotions" are ( Read more... )

Here are some links to sites and pages that I've found helpful over the last three months.
Linguistic note: "widowed" is the past participle of the verb to widow, and is unambiguously non-binary. The verb in its present tense is also non-binary, but picks up a decided gender bias from the noun form. Also see widowed at ( Read more... )

( Content warning: sad anniversaries. )