Monday, September 14, 2026

     I am cold this morning when I get up. I put on warm clothes and then close the windows. Thick fog and soon the fog dissipates. Back to winter clothes.

     I suggest to my roommate it is my turn to go to the mail box each day. Most of the mail is ads and bills. Over the last year I have slowly withdrawn further into the house.  It is the outside steps I tell myself.  Maybe? I haven’t fully recovered from last year’s sepsis treatment. Maybe?  So, this week I will see what this is all about.

     I keep checking out the internet to learn what might help me with bladder discomfort. The doctors say it is one of those conditions with no recognized effective medical treatment. I am looking for an effective off label treatment.

     A new book. THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE AND HIS MOTHER, by Rabih Alameddine, set in Lebanon. I am liking it. We watch the second half of MAY DAY, a funny bro movie.  We also watch the latest DAILY SHOW WITH John Stewart. He is so clever and funny. I am looking for a more accurate name for our president. Incompetent? Maybe, but more likely  a master criminal who pretends to be incompetent.

 

Sunday, September 13, 2026

    It is such a pleasure to be with my middle aged kids and see how competent and talented they are. It has taken time to outgrow seeing them as children. Each of these grown up humans are different, unique and wonderful. I am happy to spend time with them.

     This morning, I am a bit cold in my bedroom. The sun is out and the heat is temporarily gone. No dogs barking. I suspect my hearing is questionable. Now dogs have to be barking loudly for me to me annoyed.

     In the afternoon I am back on the deck doing my twenty minute chair exercises. I sit in the shade overlooking the wide view of the airport and Mount Toro, and the land in between. I particularly like the solitary towering pine trees. Guardians of this land.

     In the evening, we watch the first half of the movie MAYDAY on Netflix. It’s a bro film with two guys trying to escape from 1980’s Russia. Lots of comedy, laughter, fighting, fast cars, and guns. I am liking it but I don’t know, a bro film being good?  I am reading a second book by Rene Denfeld, THE TALKING BONE. I really appreciate her writing. I am not thinking of the political news today.

 

Saturday, September 12, 2026

     Sometimes I scare myself with worry.  Yesterday is one of those days. Watching news shows about the terrorist attack, September eleventh, 2001,  on the New York towers. Such a scary time and now we are seeing we are still suffering from the consequences, with an incompetent president, undeclared wars, bombing fishing boats, kidnapping presidents of other countries, ICE thugs, detention prisons, all part of our fear of terrorists.

     During the day we have fog and we have sun but we do not have heat. The weather is almost perfect.  I sit outside on the deck to do my daily chair exercise.  I stopped during the heat wave, and now I am working on starting up the daily exercise habit. Squirrels and hummingbirds move around the yard.

      A dear friend has an appointment with immigration services to finalize her path to citizenship. We practice interview possibilities.  She is so brave. Life is scary.

     I start reading again in the evening. THE TALKING BONE, a novel by Rene Denfeld.  A good enough mystery story.  We watch more of the best TV show ever, TRYING on Apple Plus. We are in season three and it keeps getting better and better with humor and kindness. I watch MS NOW news. Has anyone signed up for their new streaming apt?  I am not sure if I will.