Saturday, February 9, 2019

I listen to the news tonight and get bored.  What is it that I want to hear?  Turning off the TV I hear the rain and then the creatures that run across my roof at night and jump on to the trees.  No wind blowing. I am restless and want something.  Heater is ready to pop on and warm up my room.  Sometimes I just don’t know what I want.

A siren is blaring in the distance. And of course, the ringing in my ears. The blowing of the heater masks the outside sounds.  I look at gadgets on Amazon.  Maybe buying a three prong to two prong converter plug will be the solution to my evening boredom.

I settle down in my reading chair with A BIGAMIST’S DAUGHTER by Alice McDermott and lose myself in reading.  I read this book in 1982.  It still is alive to me.  The story of Irish American families on the East Coast.