Tuesday, April 21, 2026  

     I’ve watched every kind of detective show and am kind of bored with them.  Maybe we need a mystery show with Internal Revenue investigators, you know the Tax guy and his clever partner checking out bitcoin fraud and murder. Our current administration gives us a lot of plot possibilities. Instead of working class crime we could focus on those tricky billionaires.

     Cold damp morning. Heater is on. I plan to bench sit this morning with a friend at San Carlos Beach. Looks like we will miss the rain. Puddles outside and some clouds from last night storms.

     Last night was Rachel Maddow show along with our weekly garbage day. My roommate has the bins to the curb before Rachel came on. Every day she spends hours in the dirt creating a back yard garden. She would like chickens but I am not ready for chickens.

     WILD DARK SHORE turns out to be a compelling story set in Australia. Yesterday I did not succumb to ordering another book from Amazon. The New Yorker has some interesting articles these last couple of weeks. Life is good.

 

Monday, April 20, 2026

     It’s spring and I am ordering books from Amazon. First, I check if the library has them and then without much thought, I just place the order as If I have room in my house for more books. I can’t stop myself.

     I finish reading Penelope Lively’s book MOON TIGER. Definitely a slow powerful read.  I read it 30 years ago and didn’t understand it. But this time it is one of the best books I have read. Maybe a best book because I am finally 85 and can understand what she is writing about.

     In an airplane interview, the pope reports that he solved the day’s wordle puzzle in three tries. What, the pope plays wordle in the morning. Isn’t he always in his robes doing the sacred rituals.  Is it possible people are divided between wordle players and non wordle players. I belong to the non wordle tribe.

     We watch the Netflix movie, ELEANOR THE GREAT. I didn’t anticipate I would like it so much. I also watch a couple of episodes of THE CLOSER.  I remind my roommate as she leaves the room, I have watched more than half of the hundred episodes. I am reading the Australian novel, WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy. The pope is winning the fight with the president (who is incapable of playing wordle.)

 

Sunday, April 19, 2026

     I continue my quest for comfortable park benches in Monterey. There are many hidden benches here. This week, I return to San Carlos Beach Park. I  give up the fight for accessible handicap parking. The tall man helps me resolve the issue. Yes, I now have the parking app. Sigh.

     Yesterday is a two nap day. I love my couch, an old used couch from a relative’s office. It is indestructible. The couch receives me with soft pillows and a warm down throw. I can see the trees out the living room windows. My roommate digs an asparagus bed in the back yard. The potato patch is filled with green bushes.

     I resist doing my daily chair exercises. I am too tired, I suspect I am fooling myself.  Finally, I am sitting outside on the front patio and moving my body. Small gusts of wind shake the tall pine trees.

     We watch the stand up comedian show with Trevor Noah on Netflix. Quite good. I watch another episode of THE CLOSER and Stephen Colbert’s THE LATE SHOW. The ugly political dramas continue in our government. War, inflation, ICE raids, Epstein investigations, storms, sea rising, etc. No easy solutions. Mid term elections are coming.