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Category: 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”
Is it Christmas Eve or Friday Friday Round-Up
It didn’t occur to me until after we switched off “It’s a Wonderful Life” to watch episode 6 of Season 5 of Shetland that this was Friday. Shetland is a terrific mystery series set on a wee isle in the Scottish Shetland Islands where… Continue Reading “Is it Christmas Eve or Friday Friday Round-Up”
I Live in the World of Random Friday Round-Up
The first picture I took had a glass of wine on the little table next to my new, hand-me-down chair. But then, I thought, do you really want people to see what a giant pour that is? So I moved the wine glass to… Continue Reading “I Live in the World of Random Friday Round-Up”
Overwhelmed By My Incredibly Advancing Age Friday Round-Up
I need to find some red lipstick because I am sinking fast over here. Every inch of me is an old lady. (Please, all you “age is just a number” people, just stay in your seats.) My next birthday looms and the number is,… Continue Reading “Overwhelmed By My Incredibly Advancing Age Friday Round-Up”
Say It and Leave It Friday Round-Up
I probably should but I don’t agonize over my writing. I learned to write fast on a typewriter and as the assignments got bigger, the likelihood of revision diminished. It was hell using an eraser on onion skin paper or using the white paint… Continue Reading “Say It and Leave It 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
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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