Been a while!

Life - you know the drill. After the election in November, I kinda checked out. Hunkered down. Cried a lot. Was general pain the in the patooty. But I’m back. The garden needs me.

Plus, I’ve been tryiug to figure out what I should be hoarding for when the tariffs hit. Turns out, after my foray to my local hardware store, it’s light bulbs. Lordy, they cost more than eggs! I can’t stand dim lamps and dark rooms, so I have to bite the bullet and stock up. Don’t ask how much we had to plunk down.

I’ve been reading all sorts of new books. Essays, short story collections, thirty-year-old Anne Tyler novels. (She seems to be obsessed with older women leaving their families. Usually with good reason.) Russ Gay has a delightful little book of essayettes, as he calls them. He wrote one a day, usually a page and a half. I found all but one of them to be insightful, truthful, and/or charming. I’ve resolved to try the same deal - so far I’ve done one. About artichokes. Who was the first brave person to try to eat one? While I love them, I don’t think I’d have been brave or hungry enough, to be the guinea pig. And without mayonnaise or melted butter, yuck.

I promise to be better involved with this blog. Maybe it’ll turn into my form of essayette.