Cristina and Fear of Forgetting

So I have this lovely orange bike named Cristina. I didn’t name her – she was already a Cristina when I found her lying abandoned, minus a front wheel, in an empty square one summer night.

That night, I took poor Cristina home and gave her a new front wheel, new brakes and a [...]

A Fluttering of Birds

I’ve been gone from the blog for two days. I’ve shirked my duties! What a shirker.

To be honest, I was gone from a lot of things for two days. They were two very hard days.

I was caught up in a moment of panic. It felt like so many fluttering birds trapped around [...]

Or, I Could Become a Nun

Some days, the frustration of modern living is more than I can bear. Wow, doesn’t that sound dramatic? But it’s kinda true.

Everyone has days when it seems like the Project isn’t worth it. Or days when the Project just looks too hard or too unlikely.

These days, I have been juggling some bureaucratic [...]