Can We Potty Talk?
Your butt could be better off If you’re American, your derriere is in danger of neglect My fellow American, I feel quite safe in this assumption. Why? Because as much time and energy as you devote to keeping your house,…
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Under the Heat Dome
We fled the California fires, and here we are Living in Napa Valley was a dream come true, at first In 2014 when we moved to the lovely little Wine Country town of St. Helena, we kept pinching ourselves. Here we…
Dropping the Mask, Not
Post-vaccination masking motivations We’ve been shot! Twice! Thank God As an educator as well as a woman of a certain age, I’ve been fully inoculated for a month. My husband is of similar vintage but due to various details too tedious…
Giving Up Isn’t Giving In
Sometimes surrendering gets you the win My sister has a terrible disease It’s rare enough that you’ve probably never heard of it. It’s a progressive neurological syndrome, incurable, eventually fatal. Not Parkinson’s, though it has some similarities. I know several people…
Do You Notice Anything Different?
I’m hoping it’s not just me Since late January, there’s been a shift in tone At least in my corner of the nation, which is admittedly a deep-blue pocket in a majority blue state. Most of us here were mightily…