Author: Calamity Jane
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The Beauty of the Mundane
It’s hard to take so much time off. What do I come back in with? Part of me wants to write what my ex-social worker friend calls a “narrative” about our last month, to process it all. But, geezus what a daunting project. I thought instead I would break myself back into the business gently,…
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The News
I had been thinking I would wait until I was ready to write this all out in saga form. But who knows when I’ll get to that. My creative/expressive energy feels dried up, and y’all have been patient enough. Two and a half weeks ago we found that My Man had testicular cancer. There followed…
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Looking Up
Hi there friends. I am still not ready to come back, my mind is just not in it. But I know many of you have become (strangely enough) good friends, and are worried about me. I wanted to let you know, I’m doing much better. We had a big scare, our lives will never look…
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Note From A Friend
Dear readers, CJ wishes she could have posted 5 wham-zingers since her last celebration of digging in the trash. Unfortunately, to be perfectly honest, writing a blog post or commenting on your post is about as important to her as spilled milk right now. As her friend, I wanted to let all of you CJ…
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A Fine Day for Digging in Someone Else’s Trash
The weather has been absolutely divine this week. We were side-swiped by a slow moving “tropical storm” last week, which didn’t do much more than knock some branches down, but somehow delivered this extremely unseasonably cool weather. By cool, I mean in the 80s. But nights in the 60s! Oh my, delight cannot cease. It’s like…
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