Tuesday, May 5, 2026

     The house fills with the smell of chocolate chip cookies. Yep the roommate is on the move in the kitchen. And the cookies are really good.

      Do most of my daily exercises on Monday. Four different routines scattered through the day. Maybe too much.  Maybe I need more life.  A friend comes in the morning to write with me.

     We watch a new show, MARGO NEED MONEY. on apple+. Funny and cringey as a young college freshman is seduced and impregnated by her professor. I tell her to stop, don’t do it but she doesn’t listen to the audience. What is it with these guys. I continue to read THE KEEPER by Tana French. A really good book.

     As usual the Rachel Maddow’s Monday night show is a breath of fresh air. She describes the incompetence of the Trump team getting anything done. Yes, without the usual emotional outrage and drama, just focusing on the incompetence. Yea Rachel.

 

Monday, May 4, 2026

     We eat potatoes from our back yard potato patch, with home grown chives for dinner.  Really my roommate’s work is coming to fruition. She continues to struggle with marauding gophers. More backyard food is coming.

    I like to write with friends who like to write together. My favorite kind of writing group meets regularly to do several timed writings and then read our work to each other.  I am frequently surprised about what comes up.  We don’t work on improving our writing.  We are having fun with writing.

     I have started the latest Tana French Irish mystery story, book three in a series. THE KEEPER. Her writing is thick and wonderful.

     My charming granddaughter and I have the same name. So, she recently had an interesting article published in the Santa Cruz paper.  I am tempted to take the credit. But instead I remind folks that it is not me.

 

Sunday, May 3, 2026

     I drive to the library, return 4 books and pick up 4 books. I use a bag to move the books to and from the house. I go quickly in the library; afraid I will lose the momentum. Next time I want to wonder around the stacks and sit in a chair. I want to explore the library instead of just rushing in and out.

     I spend most of the day reading MAKING THE CUT.  Dr. Aaron Kheriaty describes our medical system differently than most medical memoirs. The patient’s experience is included. And he gets my experience right. I keep thinking, yes, he is right, it is confusing and lonely for the patient.

     Once again, I am restless to be out in the town. I think about the things I can do and then I don’t do them.  Not sure what is going to push me into action.

     We watch a wonderful gardening show HOMEGROWN on HBO. My roommate is a gardener/farmer in the back yard. We both could relax as we watch other people do the gardening work in Atlanta. We also watch the last episode of AFTER THE FLOOD. We have one more season to go. No political news today for me.