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Well now

by Cobalt

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November 04, 2025

Trying times

The man looked at my favorite ring under tt sharp white light of his lamp.  I’d been lucky to find the dark red oval-cut garnet when it had wiggled its way out of its golden prongs and tried to ...


September 08, 2025

Hopes and fears, who knew?

I believe I read somewhere that your dreams are often a reflectionof what concerns you in your waking life. Apparently I’m secretly concerned with the joy of achieving my childhood desire of ow...


July 08, 2025

Much ado about Zero

Donnal will soon be home from her 6-week cruise.Yay!  (Read that in whatever tone you choose.) I will not miss the texts and photos she's been sending me on a daily basis.I'm so glad you're ha...


-  But not being able to put them together.  I have the picture - of a very cute kittencat, name of Periwynkle. i have the desire to share said picture.  I have this site upon which I’d, hypo...


I am so enjoying summerness.The days of relative freedom are so welcome.To be relieved of almost everything except the caring for my fatheris so very lovely.I make my own schedule.I work on the ...


I had started planning. I had looked up the when and where’s.  I found, to my surprise, that there will be a protest in deepest darkest suburbia as well as the one I had expected downtown. Well,...


I wish this were fiction, but I couldn’t make it up if I tried.<o:p></o:p> I had my little conversation with Donnal yesterday which left me a little bit miffed but not surprised Bes...


June 08, 2025

Uh huh

Caroline is traveling. She sent me a text yesterday morning, just a quick hello. “Lucerne is beautiful,” she writes and sends some truly lovely pics to prove. I smile with only a slight twinge o...


May 28, 2025

Yay Day

Friday was Yay Day. Don’t google it. It’s mine. I just thought that the final day of school should have its own special name. Yay Day seemed appropriate. It’s been a hard year marked by breakd...


April 15, 2025

It occurs to me

Listening to the news, I am disheartened but not surprised to learn of a new tactic being used by the current regime in its ongoing assault on im’migrants, the so’cial se’curity system, the lega...


March 15, 2025

Ponzi scheme

A certain unelected unofficial has called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. This is, of course, the first step in destroying it,attempting to justify the destruction of an essential service that m...


March 06, 2025

MIA

Things I am currently unable to locate The left shoe of my favourite (most comfortable) pair of everyday flats.How very annoying. My glassesOh well. Living in soft focus, maybe life will be l...


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January 27, 2018

Used to be mad about you

I don’t mind quiet in small doses, but long stretches of silence tend to bother me. Living alone can be a very quiet experience, so I have my little aural crutches. The tenant on the other s...


January 06, 2018

Luck of the lactose tolerant

On the way home from work this afternoon I stopped at a convenience store to pick up this week’s lottery tickets. Both the mega and the power ball are at insanely high levels, but I’m treating ...


January 04, 2018

Winter's breath

Sitting in my study, the portable heater at my feet, still wearing my faux shearling coat and fluffiest knit scarf, typing to warm up my frozen fingers. I keep the house cool in the wintertime,...


January 02, 2018

Boxes of fun

It was twelve days ago that I left the office with a box of work and an absolute delusion that I was some other person, some sensible person who was going to take that box home over the holid...


December 26, 2017

Defensive lying

This was another non-Christmas for me. That’s okay because it was, as usual, completely my choice. Alright. You might be thinking, Christmas alone, not celebrating the day, damn girl, that’s jus...


December 17, 2017

Feel it still

Chasing attendance, exam style. Everyone should have shown up, all on time, all ready. but they don’t. So there I am, running around from classroom to classroom, double checking that the stude...


I am finding myself in a strange state tonight, working hard to maintain a façade of calm, attempting to exercise the ability to ignore the things that are truly unnerving me. The numbers, oh hea...


October 07, 2017

Having a good time

Dripping rainwater, I’ve just returned from outside. I waited too late to start, but I actually prefer working in the cooling rain to the unbearable heat. There were the huge rolling garbage bins...


September 30, 2017

No rest

Saturday morning - It’s just past eleven and I am finishing a break. I have been a relatively good, relatively old girl this morning. I slept in, again relatively. Instead of getting up at five t...


September 21, 2017

At least I'm bringing pizza

Okay, Nathe and I haven’t really been talking for a few months now, which has been a bit of an emotional vacation, but, since I was never really mad at him about his last bizarre blow-up, I made...


September 02, 2017

About Harvey

I haven’t mentioned Harvey even though I’ve been glued to the screen watching. I don’t know what to say. Absolutely terrible. I feel so awful for everyone affected. I am beyond empathy. Beaumont...


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