So we talked. I said what I needed to say. We were gentle and gracious with each other for a day of planning and figuring-out. 40-some hours later Dear Husband dropped me at the airport on his way back to FL to finish buttoning up the boat for a season of inattention (sailboats aren't fast enough to go out in hurricane season, so we don't ( Read more... )

Uneventful trip with the truck: Check ( Read more... )

Monthly updates are not enough (so what stops me from updating weekly? Hmm ( Read more... )

This is an expansion of a comment I posted a little while ago on a friend's blog. I kept wanting to say, Great! Glad to see you're taking steps to lift your depression! Glad to see you bouncing back! Rah, rah! I kept noticing myself saying, Glad to see you getting out -- I'm getting out, but it isn't helping. Finally I noticed.

Seven days from now I ( Read more... )

Hello, Beloveds ( Read more... )

Wondering why I was having such a hard time choosing travel dates for the annual migration from the frozen North to warm water and the sailboat. As my resistance grew, some events occurred in the region of Central America where the boat now is, but Dear Husband found those in the category of "these things happen, even though tragic" and went ahead ( Read more... )

 We got up at 2 am to drive to the airport. "Be there two hours ahead," it says on the airline's website, so we dutifully pulled up out in front of the terminal at exactly 3:45 am. Dear Husband pulled his bags out of the trunk, handed me the winter jacket he won't need in the tropics, hugged me goodby and trudged into the airport. Where, as I had ( Read more... )

Ancient Chinese curse (paraphrased): May you live in interesting times. But these interesting times have been much more like a Blessing.

It's been an amazing week or two here in my head and heart.

Seeing an old flame -- my first spouse, to be exact. After a marriage of less than five years back in the 60s, we parted friends -- and then could hardly ( Read more... )

Where did the time go? Seems like just a couple of weeks ago I was writing about Samhain ... and then nothing until halfway between Yule and Candlemas. Yikes ( Read more... )

... and I'm a-gonna make it home tonight ( Read more... )