OK, so in a lot of ways, 2021 was as sucktastic as 2020. We are still not at equilibrium with the COVID, and our politics are still a hot mess - although, certainly, Biden's inauguration put paid to the daily Dose of Dread we had been getting for four years. I have high hopes that …
Month: December 2021
That Liminal Space
I'm on mini-vacation again, taking a day and a half more than the 3-day weekend. I did manage to get work mostly wrapped up before yesterday afternoon, when I dropped off. But a big lunch and a big catch-up phone call with a dear friend took up the afternoon. But I've been going going going …
Shutdown… you’d better take care…
This new wave of Omicron has me more nervous about catching COVID than before, not sure why. Possibly because I keep hearing about how it's far more transmissible. Like I've been fine with my cloth masks, even if they're gappy around the edges, because I'm still trying to stay away from people, but apparently the …
What the Falala
As part of my Christmas celebration, I've been 'rereading' some favorite Christmas-themed romance novels as audiobooks. I'd discovered the hilarious May Archer this year, whose "Love in O'Leary" series takes place in a quite-deliberately too-good-to-be-true Hallmarky small town where everyone gets in your business. In The Night, photographer Liam shows up in O'Leary with his …