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Category: Friday Round-Up
Heavyweight Week Friday Round-Up
We were gifted two cans of salmon. Thus, I am making salmon patties for dinner and remembering my mother’s salmon patties made with a can of salmon mixed with crumbled Saltines. They were oddly yummy notwithstanding the wee circular bones that popped up occasionally.… Continue Reading “Heavyweight Week Friday Round-Up”
Nothing Fits Friday Round-Up
The people of Ukraine refuse to sit down. We have not seen this kind of thing in a long time and we don’t know what to do with it, it being so foreign to how we are as a country right now. So, we… Continue Reading “Nothing Fits Friday Round-Up”
Ukrainian Blue Friday Round-Up
Face it, you’re never going to wear that sweater. Or use that bag or read that book again (since you couldn’t finish it the first time). Don’t stand there lecturing yourself about how the sweater would look great with a brown turtleneck. It doesn’t.… Continue Reading “Ukrainian Blue Friday Round-Up”
A Week of War Friday Round-Up
You can say something is unfathomable only once and then it becomes fathomable. It is not unfathomable the second time your boyfriend gives you a black eye. The minute Russia shot off the first missile, the first bomb, rolled the first tank, the invasion… Continue Reading “A Week of War Friday Round-Up”
Peeking Out from Under a Rock Friday Round-Up
Street Angels has its annual strategic planning sessions tomorrow morning. In the past year, Covid has weighed heavy on our team, hanging around our necks like tractor tires, making every part of our work a hundred times harder. But lugging those tractor tires around… Continue Reading “Peeking Out from Under a Rock Friday Round-Up”
Paw Forward Friday Round-Up
There’s war brewing between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. Surgeon General’s entire family has Covid, and there is a storm coming. For all these reasons, we had to chop going to the symphony tonight. As a friend of mine once said, “I am always… Continue Reading “Paw Forward Friday Round-Up”
Paw Patrol Friday Round-Up
My husband says that no one is emailing me because I’ve become a cat person. Everyone likes dog people better, he says, and that’s why there’s been such a drop-off in my email life. Perhaps. I do have a cat living in my office.… Continue Reading “Paw Patrol Friday Round-Up”
Fashionista Friday Round-Up
My husband wore his Stormy Kromer hat to the symphony, and I didn’t even care. My own outfit involved a black turtleneck from Goodwill, a white sweater that looks like I last wore it gardening, and a giant, very wrinkled scarf that I’d unwound… Continue Reading “Fashionista Friday Round-Up”
Not Much Good News Friday Round-Up
I hardly ever pull the window shades down because I want to see outside. But I realize, then, that people can see me sitting here typing this sentence. At night, I pull the curtains closed while we get ready for bed but then I… Continue Reading “Not Much Good News Friday Round-Up”
Hark! The New Year Friday Round-Up
I should but I have no complaints. Covid/Omicron is dripping on people I know, not us yet though it feels inevitable, but we are so cocooned, it seems unlikely. I have work and meetings and writing and sifting through my house’s innards to get… Continue Reading “Hark! The New Year Friday Round-Up”
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect May 27, 2020
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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