Chocolate? Dogs? Netflix?
A few months ago I thought it might be fun to write a blog, so I did a little research on blogging and every source asked me the same question: what is your focus going to be? Food? Poetry? Travel? I felt an instant zap of irritation at the confinement and limitations of this question. It reminded me of those quizzes on Facebook where you have to choose 2 things out of a list of 15 to keep in your life during the pandemic. Chocolate? Dogs? Netflix? Books? Pajamas? My phone? Well, I’m a 61-year-old woman who hasn’t been to the hairdresser in a year and I choose them all. The world is a sprawly, complicated place and like everyone else, I’m a sprawly, complicated being with multiple facets and interests. Other people’s stories, my toddler granddaughter, my mother’s death when I was 18, the turkey vulture that I’m watching gliding in the wind as I’m writing this – they are all interesting t...