This week's sporkful

Yes, this is a day earlier than I have been posting. I am trying a little change.  While I talk about it more on the Sunday blog, I am a rel...

Prior to my first trip to Italy in 2006, I had only met one aunt, who had been to visit us in the States three times over the years. As the ...

Back to Won't You Be My Neighbor ..  there was another part that stayed with me, regarding his interaction with Fran ç ois Clemmons, the...

A few years ago I went through many books relating to death and dementia and wholeness, and wasn't sure that it gave me what I needed. A...

In a process that is going much more quickly than my emotional growth and healing, we are replacing all the floors in the house.  The house ...

I watched Encanto relatively late, so I saw a lot of comments without context. Regardless, I remember a lot of people tweeting about the re...

Before I get to my father, I need to talk about someone very different from him: Fred Rogers. Back in 2018 when Won't You Be My Neighbo...

Two week ago in writing about grief, I wrote about how it can be reasonable to look at what spaces a relationship filled in your life (after...

I had a breakthrough a few months ago.  I am only writing about it now because at the time it was almost too easy to write about. Kind of an...

Last week's post had a reference to worrying about my dog. At the time of that writing session we had a vet appointment. We ended up goi...

Maybe you noticed I skipped last week. There were two primary reasons that I did not feel able to write. One is content. I was planning on s...

"You've been feeling it too, haven't you? Something is off. Your clothes never wear as well the next day. Your hair never falls...

I will return to society's collapse and fighting it soon, but sometimes one needs to lighten up. For daily songs I had been doing ten so...

There is one more factor driving call volume.  It is not the one that gives us the most extra calls, but it has such a pronounced impact in ...

One factor driving call volume is that doctors' offices are overworked as well. Members call because they need to change their primary c...

One of the bad moments with this current job was when I realized that it is sucking the life out of me at a level similar to taking care of ...

I may be the only one really struggling with the call volume (I suspect I am not), but there is no question that the call volume is higher. ...

I hate my job. I know that's not exactly the right way to say it. For the most part I like the type of work I do, which is helping peopl...

It's really more "challenged" books, but then we lose the alliteration. There was a time when I read things based on whether I...

I am reporting back on how the daily songs for June -- during which time I was celebrating Black queer musicians -- went. I was worried abou...