Six Month Week
This week, it is six months since Bruce died. I started feeling strange about this when I noticed that the days of this week have exactly the same dates as that week in December: Bruce came home on Monday the seventeenth and died shortly before midnight on Sunday the...
Theatre Flashback
Last Sunday a friend and I attended the closing performance of “Crimes of the Heart” (by Beth Henley) at the local community theatre. Mid-way through Act One a strange thought occurred to me: though I’d staged managed a production of this play in 1994, I had...
Rest and Relaxation
Nearly six months after Bruce’s death I am finally getting it into my stubborn head that I need more rest. And relaxation. Rest and relaxation; kind of catchy, isn’t it? It’s crazy that it’s taken me this long to realize that, since a month prior to Bruce’s...
Book Review: Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights
Several weeks ago I volunteered to write a review for “Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights” by Randall Platt (HarperCollins Children’s Books © 2109). I’ve been gifted an ARC (Advanced Review Copy) in exchange for an honest review....
Multitasking
Multitasking. The word does not appear in my 1974 Merriam-Webster dictionary. Resorting to Wikipedia, multitasking is: . . .an apparent human ability to perform more than one task, or activity, at the same time. Did you notice the skeptical tone of this...
Word: Self-Care
Something I’ve heard a lot since Bruce died (five months ago yesterday, not that I’m counting) is “Now is the time for lots of self-care.” It’s taken me a while to register this advice, and more time still to act on it. The concept of self-care is not simple for me....
