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Love and Basketball

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I have Thanksgiving plans. After playing phone tag with Emily for over a week we finally connected; I’m making my annual pilgrimage to Massachusetts for the holiday. I missed last year so this is extra special. I was worried about fare for the bus but even at this late date […]

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Inspired Madmen and Mental Roommates

Disaster struck yesterday! I went on my Donut Walk ™ as usual, planning for Krispy Kreme to be an intermediary stop on my way to Marie’s Coffee and Gifts. I was feeling proud of myself for taking the Coffee Walk™ a few days before I was out of coffee. I usually wait till the last […]

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Cataracts, Crepes, and Radar

Has the return to standard time got my circadian rhythm in better alignment with the clocks? When’s the last time I started writing as early as 9:19 AM? This is when I want to start writing. Yesterday was a long day. Two of my friends had cataract surgery and I was their escort from the […]

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Compliance Will Be Rewarded

I couldn’t get myself out of the house yesterday until my nighttime adventure. I had planned on walking to Aldi for some much-needed groceries but that didn’t happen. My evening plans started at 9 PM yet I never made dinner. I didn’t blog. Saturday was not a shining day for me. My adventure was going […]

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In FLU encer

Yesterday’s adventure was getting my flu shot. The tough part for me was filling out the insurance info while making my reservation at CVS. I know I have Medicaid but filling out the info still gives me anxiety. CVS has all my information; I get my prescriptions there. I wish there was a check-off box […]

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The Way My Brain Works or Doesn’t

Let’s see if I’m awake enough to write. I’m working the polls on Tuesday; that means being there from 5 AM to about 10 PM. I’m planning on waking up around 4:15, that is much closer to when I usually go to sleep. I decided to spend the weekend shifting my internal clock. Usually I […]

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The Doctor that Wouldn’t Vax

Yesterday was a bad mental health day. It was due to a confluence of events the most important of which is isolation, I have not seen a friend in almost two weeks. Talking to my psychiatrist did more harm than good. I like my psychiatrist, but I found out that he not vaccinated and doesn’t […]

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Thee Ate Her

Yesterday Katherine and I went to the theater (pronounce that pretentiously with three syllables). We went to see the great actor David Moseder (moh-SEE-der) in Night Watch with the Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights, funny how that works out. David is a friend and partner in crime. We even acted together in the classic music […]

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Anna and the Lord of Liechtenstein

Sorry I’ve been missing in action. I’m going to skip Friday and not write about what I did today. Instead, I’ll launch into the epic saga of the wedding of Dan and Anna. I did what most people do the morning of an afternoon wedding, I went to the hospital for an infusion. I played […]

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I Hate Fighting with Friends

Let’s try a rare late-night edition of Wise Madness. I should be on my way home from Rockwood Music Hall now but the show I planned on going to was canceled because a band member got COVID-19. I had an interview for a teaching job yesterday. It went well and I have a video interview […]