late at nite

So the bag is not packed, but that doesn’t take much. I hated the endless kvetching over clothes — exactly which ones to take or not, the innumerable shopping trips — that Mom did when I was a kid. I wear mostly the same outfit. Just need to remember to take a jacket and sweater. Continue reading late at nite

uprooting

That is how I am coming to think of the initial set-out of travelling. Sudden overwhelming need for my house, my cats, my furniture, even my bedspread. All the clutter life brings about you, but which you don’t usually think about. A dream around suppertime: My son has had friends over (the ones in the Continue reading uprooting

Evening

It is a luxury to leave the window open in this perfect weather, after the dreadful hot summer, and listen to the crickets and katydids. I turn down the volume on the television to hear the insects better. Much hurry over small things: the cat needed her once-daily ear-drops, and her twice-daily antibiotic. Her ear Continue reading Evening

too many plans

Got all the plans nailed down, as far as I can do so, for the trip, including an extra night’s stay in NYC so I don’t have to deal with missed flights on the way back from Tel Aviv. I will need to decompress anyway, and what better place to do so than in a Continue reading too many plans