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  • Tying the Knot

    As a hospice chaplain I am asked to do funerals often. Sometimes I get asked to marry a couple that have lived most of their lives together and they want marry when one goes on to hospice. Yesterday I got… Continue reading

    Tying the Knot
  • Humor, Tenacity and Gratitude

    Dr. Angle Johnson has been my Dr. I think since 2015. Would have to check the meds records, but she is my go to. I was seeing a guy one town over and kept complaining about prolapsing. I had Cervical… Continue reading

    Humor, Tenacity and Gratitude
  • Tea Time

    When I was little, 4 pm was time for tea. Each grandmother, Mamie and Nana had tea a 4, that you could count on. However each had a different presentation. Mamie had a household staff growing up and when she… Continue reading

    Tea Time
  • Passed the exam!

    I hate tests. I will qualify that: I failed Latin with a 40, failed Spanish 2x and my mother was a Spanish teacher. Failed my first driver’s test. Took three times to pass this one, but I did and Thanks… Continue reading

    Passed the exam!
  • What a wich’d piss’ah,

    I ask for music in the OR. Instead of Lizzo, I switched it up to Shiboozey: Little Good News. In Boston vernacular a “wich’d piss’ah is something really fantastic. Sounds the opposite of what it really is, but it is… Continue reading

    What a wich’d piss’ah,
  • Is it a typical day?

    I wake up somewhere before 6, normally because the cat is walking on top of me, giving out because she hears the preset coffee pot going. Maybe she hears P.’s alarm. I don’t really hear much because my hearing aids… Continue reading

    Is it a typical day?
  • Testing

    Testing was never my forte. In Jr. High I was at Milton Academy, only because of my stepfather’s family. My Grandfather had been headmaster and my uncle Phil taught there. My mother distanced herself from the Perry family after David’s… Continue reading

    Testing
  • Fuck Putin and Fuck Trump

    This was coming. Zelensky saw it, but because the Ukraine is not part of NATO, hands are tied. He has stayed with this people and is perhaps the bravest leader I will know in my lifetime. This is where I… Continue reading

  • Treasure or the Coin

    I have been thinking a lot about the purpose of the studio and my writing and my yarn. Black Ram Designs found a home on Main Street in Cabot Vermont earlier this year. I was looking for a place for… Continue reading

  • Dyeing in the Kitchen

    There has been a bunch of dyeing going on at home.   Lulu called the other night and ask me what I was up to and I said dyeing and she laughed and said, oh, dyeing  in the kitchen and we… Continue reading