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Clarycat has died (2009-2023)
How she looked a few minutes after the anesthesia was injected — she is no longer alive but for a few minutes she is as alive, and retains her beauty; note the IV in her paw: it enabled her death to...
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On wanting to be haunted ….
On mantelpiece Clarycat’s urn w/her ashes near Jim’s, on one side her favorite toy, on the other a stuffed sheep bought at Stonehenge (family holiday, in London, & then Somerset); behind these...
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“At 77, it is time to be in earnest …”
Me and Clarycat, spring 2013, photo taken by Jim Dear Friends and Readers, If I’m not mistaken, this was the hardest birthday I’ve had to get through since Jim died, 10 years ago — 2013, when I was...
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New Year’s Eve: Izzy’s song, Clarycat not gone from us altogether; the year’s...
Here I am holding firmly to my sturdy fellow, Ian, Izzy taking the photo — greeting everyone on FB and twitter & bluesky & a literary mastodon Dear friends and readers, This has not been an...
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay … except for the detective heroine
My day’s journey has been pleasanter in every respect than I expected. I have been very little crowded and by no means unhappy. — Jane Austen, Letters (24 Oct 1798) Dear friends and readers, Half-way...
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Hemorrhagic stroke
Dear friends and reader, Here’s why I’ve not posted for weeks: I wrote this to a literary women, Anne Boyd Rioux, in answer to something she wrote to me on her substack newsletter: I had sent one of...
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Recovery a long arduous road which demands patience
A photo of me probably in 2018, honored for my years of teaching at OLLI at AU Dear friends and readers, I began the road to recovery sometime during my two weeks at the Rehab/Nursing Home/Subacute...
View ArticlePuddle of Mud’s “Blurry”— arranged and sung by Izzy
This music video can stand alone: Blurry.. Puddle of Mud‘, a rock band formed in the early 1990s, has has a number of super-selling albums. Here are the words of the poem: the speaker is despairing and...
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Recovering — state of home library
Bookcase bought for enclosed porch: DVDs, notes on TV and theater movies, books on films, sequels, and translations (mostly of Austen & Trollope, section just by Andrew Davies) Dear friends and...
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In a fit of absence of mind we seem to have renovated, improved, fixed this...
ClaryCat some years ago trotting over the tops of bookcases as when I was very young (2nd grade, 7-8) I with cousins once did over the roofs of tenements in the Bronx where we lived Friends and...
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It’s nearly 6 months since my stroke & midsummer
A thrush in the syringa sings ‘Hunger ruffles my wings, fear, lust, familiar things. Death thrusts hard. My sons by hawk’s beak, by stones, trusting weak wings, by cat and weasel, die. Thunder...
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Brief Update: I won’t be going away after all
My stationary indoor bike Friends and readers, I am relieved because I am not yet up to it. I cannot as yet walk outside with my rollaton that easily. So I would not be able to take public...
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The Road Ahead
Coronado Island, California, where Izzy, Laura & Rob stayed — it is gorgeous, the hotel luxurious, though the beach was not for swimming/bathing Dear friends and readers, I’ve not blogged here for...
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Ian Pussycat has died too, April 7, 2008 – August 30, 2024
Me and Ian waiting for the Vet to join us in a private room Death was altogether too much a familiar in my house this year. First he came for Clarycat. Took her. Nov 2023. Then he came for me, but,...
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Autumn — A good life on line, can it be done?
Front part of my garden — standing close to photograph — muted nature of colors are part of beauty. Red berry bush — standing to the side — calls to my mind Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Dear...
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Two new family members: Fiona & Elinor, How it all came together these last...
Fiona (Outlander, from Fion/Finn, means ash-blonde, white) Elinor aka Ellie-cat (Austen, as in Dashwood), favorite heroine Born early 8/2024. Thou mett’st with things dying [beloved Ian & Clary],...
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