foozled
Tara Choate Foozle: verb (used with or without object) – to bungle; play clumsily. Trying to come up with a way to start this blog post, I was looking at the various…
2021
Just put a happy little dog in it…
After a long week where my main focus was overcoming the stomach malady reported in my last post, I entered the weekend happily, but with a full schedule. Key was…
Chicken soup and ginger ale
As I said in my last post, it was a busy and stressful week. As punishment, last night I came down with some unspecified stomach bug. I’m a little nauseous,…
Good. Bye. Week.
Some weeks are long for no apparent reason. And then there are weeks like this. To the Beach Last Thursday after work I headed down to the Beach House, intending…
Chopped
This week was dominated by my mood, which was odious. I was at turns sad, cranky, lonely, swamped, sore, itchy, and generally irritable. For some unknown reason, that resulted in…
Giddy
This was a tough week for me. As I have mentioned, I have been struggling with back pain. Last Friday (9 days ago), I finally made it into the chiropractor,…
Farraginous
Farraginous (adjective): as in confused, messy This word sums up Salem as a whole and today in particular for me. I woke up and took the dog for a walk,…
Hunkered
With the President’s Day holiday, this will be a four-day weekend for me. I hadn’t been down to the beach house for a while, but a weather event was heading…
Years and moments
“I find myself in a dark place in my painting practice. I periodically go through these times when I can’t seem to find my way, painting myself into corner after…