Foot thing

Get me into the shower! I have to go to the doctor’s in less than an hour. Maybe I won’t have to wear the above for much longer.

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Have you ever wanted to write, just for the sake of feeling the words come out of your hands and onto the paper or the screen? That’s how I feel now. My foot (in its plastic and Velcro enclosure, I think of it as a separate entity) and I have not ventured out yet today. Continue reading words words words

Newtonian physics in real life, good books, and a cat.

In reading The Golden Compass, I’m remembering why so many so-called “adult” books bore me: very little happens in them, and even when it does, it’s hard to care about the characters it happens to. In this book, much happens, and I care about all the people, some of whom I don’t even like. I Continue reading Newtonian physics in real life, good books, and a cat.

Kilimanjaro

My son and husband busily get ready to climb Kilimanjaro in March, which seems to be about a month away. My son gets ready by going over his gear, and heading over to Climb Time regularly for practice. My husband gets ready by sitting in his office going through the mail, and wondering which boots Continue reading Kilimanjaro