A Day in the Life, 10 years

2019 I have the most amazing friends! Issa Noor video Humiliation, Then a sense of a reprieve: I shouldn’t be here. https://winnipegsun.com/.../air-quality-warning.../amp Picture of an illegal alien: turned back at the border. But after the lecture about lying and the scary consequences thereof (“how old are you?” “Don’t you know you’re supposed to tell the truth?” “Read this paragraph (in a huge lawbook)” “you can be fined and imprisoned.”) they then turned nice and gave me Kleenex. I can return, just not as a house sitter. Apparently Canada considers it to be a job, even though I don’t get paid, and I need papers (which they won’t give me.) But I’m not forced to stay at the airport or sleep on concrete or otherwise get tortured. I’m not a refugee. But I still feel like pond scum, unwanted. My passport has been confiscated for my overnight hotel stay in Winnipeg, and I’m returning to NM to figure out if this is a sign from the gods that I should settle down like a good little girl. 2...

2018 Fire and ice! 2015 Haiku to DIY innovation: Today I processed Hazelnuts and chocolate. It's rather gluppy. . It's tasty of course, But I think next time I should Follow instructions. Dancing to Dire Straits While cleaning up bacon grease: The joy of small things. 2014 Finches fill the tree And join the feeding juncos. Can you spot them all? The ground was sparkly And the stars so resplendent: Wintry wonderland. 2013 Snuggled in the quilts, Drinking coffee and reading: Reveling in it. 2010 Just finished eating a fabu pizza: salami, olives, home-made pesto sauce, bacon, artichoke hearts, home-made pizza dough. Damn, I'm good.

2018 All I can say is Wow. Now that’s an opener. The beer money’s spent. Diana, do you need this?! I’m at a Celtic Connections Concert, and there are beacoup booths. It’s a big deal here. Just tasted some special Shetland gin (w/ seaweed?!) and a blended whisky. Sadly, the chocolatier is stranded by weather Not sure I’m going to the Celtic Connection concert tonight.... It starts raining snow So I take a taxi home. The world is frosted. 2017 Caught in the headlights, A bunny-shaped silhouette. It's a clump of snow. 2015 She raced her plane in The Powder Puff Derby, and Her voice soared also. RIP Aunt Joni 2014 American Jazz Museum, Kansas City Just had a private concert by the janitor in the Blue Room Lounge. He suggested going to the Broadway Jazz Club tonight. I love the Blues but I think it's time to start seriously listening to jazz. Expand my horizons a bit! - Grasshopper Empty halls echo To piped-in jazz and the blues. I just have to dance. Kansas City Art Museum Four hou...