I have become elderly this year. No I am not older than my actual calendar years, yet society thinks I am now dispensable. The pandemic moved Boomers from the “in” group to oldsters, Actually, to a group to be discarded in nursing homes. With a moral shadow blighting the national conscience. As the virus decimated the…
Category: Hobbies
Keeping Busy During the Pandemic
At certain points during this pandemic, I have wandered around, slightly unnerved by limitations of movement, no favorite restaurant dinners, few safe shopping opportunities, and feel vague and without direction. Oh, I can fill my time, but I have to build my daily schedule as a retiree. I do have a daily list of ToDos,…
Symphony in the 21st Century (at the beach)
Living at the beach, access to symphony music is limited usually to Alexa, Pandora, and CDs. Fortunately, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra has a schedule of Fall Concerts that are available in several settings in the Delmarva area. Planning to attend requires careful strategic activities around calendar, family, and location. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and…
Mating Season for Limulus Polyphemus: The Horseshoe Crab
Unique among hard-shelled creatures is the horseshoe crab, though not really a crab. Actually an evolutionary oddity, this crab has not changed its utterly unfashionable appearance for more than 350 million years, and is actually an arthropod, related more to a spider than a crab. Every year in late spring the horseshoe crab crawls onto…
Malibu Sunrise
Following the beauty of countless sunsets has been a lifetime commitment. Checking the timeliness of the sunset with the newly available apps has contributed to the ease of knowing when and where to be ready for the moment and be accessible for memorializing this perpetual elegance. But, I digress … Look at this impromptu moment…
The South in the Days After the BIG Snow
Okay I will admit that the only reason I can comment on the snow in the South is that I am an escapee from the cold and miserable weather in the Mid-Atlantic, particularly Ocean City with its biting damp winds and freezing bay and ocean waters. As we made the slow descent down the coast…
Life with a Dog
“The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera.” Patrick Demarchelier The adorable pulchritude of a furry golden retriever regally relaxed in the chair, knowingly staring into the lens with an air of passionate sincerity, ears forward, gazing innocently with coal-black pools of endearment. In the fullness of…
Water’s Edge
In the stillness of a fall sunrise as a solitary bird fishes at the water’s edge waiting for the swell of the ocean to bring in the in the morning’s catch, the clouds creep across the horizon creating a moment of solitude and peace.
Catfish and Crocodile
You know you are in the south…. traveling Route 41, west of Charleston, in a little town of Johnsonville, SC. The store, called The Skinning Shed, was so interesting I stopped. A friendly lady came up to me with a menu and an invitation to come on in and hold the rattlesnake, which I declined.…
The Struggle of Writing according to Sylvia Plath
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
Life Gets Better 