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November 19th, 2022

 I have neglected this blog since it's onset. Too busy, too busy writing on other parts of the Internet, too busy working, working working, too busy reading and listening to music and shopping and worrying -- always worrying. No matter. On Friday, the weather turned cold and itt snowed. The snow stuck and it's been sub-zero temperatures evr since. Not unusual at all for this time of year, but still it came as a surprise. Time is running so fast, as it tends to do as you get older.  Despite my chilly digits and feet, I quite like the snow. It adds light to the world (sunset today is going to be at 4 o'clock sharp) and does something to offset the seasonal affective disorder that at times plagues me. I love just lying around on a cold day reading, writing and listening to music. I love making home-made chicken soup (just a bunch of celery root, celery, carrots, parsley root and chicken boiled for a couple of hours with whatever herbs and spices we have thrown in.) and eating ...
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No One Can Stop Gravity

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No one can stop gravity. Today is Tuesday and you've officially been at school for a week. The first day didn't count because it was more of a parent-teacher meeting and afterwards we took you to babička's and went to work. I had written a note to myself on my iPhone not to forget to put your snack in your backpack (rice-cake with peanut butter; chocolate croissant; two carrot sticks) and not to forget to fill your water bottle. But when I got up Mommy had already done that before she had left for work. Every fourth Tuesday she has to go to work early, like I do every first and third Tuesday and she was gone before we even got up at six.  I put rice cake with peanute butter in it last night because I know you like that and it is filling. I know that you almost certainly will not like whatever they give you at lunch; and you have to fill up at snacktime. You put the backpack on. With the little textbooks and snack-box and water bottle and gym towel in it, as we...
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Tick tock goes the clock

1. At the swimming pool yesterday we played hide and seek. We slid down the water-slide with you between my legs, our hands slapping at the side to push us faster. When we neared the bottom you shouted: I'm going to hold my nose! I was worried that when we hit the water I was going to bowl right over you and hurt you. But that didn't happen. We swam in the "big"pool. You attempted to dog paddle, struggling to keep your head up, tiring yourself out. I let you put your arms around my neck and ride me like a dolphin across the pool. Later, we sat in the kiddie pool talking. "Daddy, when I'm 46, are you still going to be alive." "I don't know, bud. Probably not. I'll be really old. I'll be 86." "But will you be alive?" "I don't know. I hope so. I hope I get old enough to see you be a man. But...you know, I'm sick." "How are you sick?" "My heart is sick. I have heart disease. It's...
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