Thursday, March 21, 2019

I am meeting my friend at the Crossroads coffee house.  She is late and when she arrives, she is pale, hoarse and with a messy cold.  I pull back and tell her to keep her distance.  I don’t want to catch a cold.  She laughs.  No really don’t touch me. We talk across the table for a few minutes.  I tell her to go home to her bed. I come home and wash my hands over and over again.

At home I heat up soup from Safeways and toast two pieces of bread.  I eat and watch the latest Daily Show with Trevor Noah on comcast on demand.  I laugh.  Then I wash the dishes and my hands one more time.

I am relaxing with a new mystery story writer, Jon Talton’s first book, CONCRET DESERT, Published in 2001. Set in Phoenix Arizona.  So far, I like it.  My mom’s family came from Arizona. I have a lot of memories of the desert and the heat.