Letters to the Moon....

I am the self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas. It is my favorite time of year, the time when I really shine. I love to decorate my living room for the holidays. My decorations don’t extend to other rooms, with the exception of battery operated candles that I put in my window. "Christmas Candle" by Esperanza Habla One of the things I love to do every holiday season is to put up my Christmas tree. I always put it up early every year, so I can enjoy it for a longer period of time. The lights on the tree create a special ambience in the dark autumn and winter nights. I always put up my tree in October, usually around Halloween, to sort of thumb my nose at the holiday. It allows me to skip Halloween altogether, and to celebrate the holidays as I want to. I then leave the tree up into the New Year, taking it down in late January or early February. Some years I’ve left the tree up until March. One year I didn’t take my tree down at all! * This year, I had the opportunity to put up m...

  " Big News"-a Letter to the Moon Hi there Luna, How are you? How are things? You looked absolutely beautiful in your full moon state this month! How is our friend Sally? It's hard to believe she moved there ten years ago. Please give her my love. Things are fine here. The world is still in the midst of a global pandemic. So much has changed in the past eighteen months. Thinking back to the early days of the pandemic, no one knew what we were dealing with. In March 2020 I went into lockdown, which lasted nine weeks.  Returning to work was a scary proposition. In the library, we offered curbside services for a month or more before we opened. When we finally did open to the public, we limited the number of people in the building, and asked people to keep their visits to an hour. Things changed for me as well in that time. When I was at home for nine weeks, I wrote and published a blog once a week. I also began work on my next book, "Look to the Light." When I ret...

  I am a person who loves and appreciates great art. Of course, the definition of great art is in the eye of the beholder. Still, there are pieces of art that resonate with me. My favorite artist is George Seurat, whose technique of pointillism became the pixelated world of photography. It evolved into digital photography, television screens, 480p-1080i High Definition television images. Those numbers are measurements, denoting the number of dots in a square inch. Nowadays, new televisions are advertised in 4K and 8K-that means they have four times, or eight times, more pixels in a square inch than a high definition picture. Just think of all of that modern technology, which originated as dots painted on a canvas. I saw my first Seurat print while taking an art history course in college. The painting: “The Channel of Gravelines: Petit Fort Philippe.” The painting was mammoth in scale. It was all encompassing; I couldn’t take my eyes off it. https://artsandculture.google.com/a...

The strangest thing happened on the way to work last week. I was driving my normal route, not expecting any difference in the day. Shortly after turning onto a different road, I saw the car in front of me leave the lane and maneuver around something in the road. The object in the road: a Canada goose, which stood in the middle of the lane. The goose aggressively honked at the car as it passed, as if the goose were yelling at the car for not being a mindful driver. I instinctively stopped, not knowing what was happening.   Hello , what are we waiting for ?   I then noticed a disturbance in the grass on the right side of the road. Just then, another Canada goose emerged from the brush. As it began to walk out onto the road, I noticed that the goose was limping. It was struggling to make the slightest movement, and was having trouble getting across the road.   Comparing the two, the goose that was limping was smaller than the other. I quickly realized that the two geese were...

  Something New (A letter to the moon)   Hiya Luna, dear friend. How are you? How are things? I hope you have been well. How is our friend Sally? Please give her my regards.   For me, things are moving at an accelerated pace, which is quite unusual for my life. I’m putting the finishing touches on my next book, “Look to the Light.” I hope to have it out soon!   Things have changed at work as well. I have had a job change recently, a temporary change. I’m helping out in another department, as they have someone who is ill and out on medical leave.  I have temporarily stepped up into this new position, and am glad to do so. I’m learning how to do their job, while doing mine at the same time. It has been a lot to juggle at times. But, it’s been over a month now. I know what I’m doing, and am able to do the job in an efficient and timely manner.   While I’ve done my job for over 25 years, I have never done this new job before; it's completely new to me, in every...

Hello there, I have big news to share. I have finally reached a new milestone in my life: I am fully vaccinated. I had my Covid-19 vaccination on Friday of Memorial Day Weekend. I timed it perfectly. I had Saturday, Sunday, and Monday off of work, which I thought would serve me well if I had any adverse reactions. Friday night I drove home from work and noticed that my arm hurt. I also noticed that I was experiencing chills; it felt like I needed to put on a sweater, which I ended up doing when I arrived home. I had goose bumps all night. Saturday morning I woke up with a headache, and took a pain reliever. I had some chills, though I no longer had goose bumps. I felt stiff throughout the day. Not exactly achy, but not my normal self either. I felt fatigued as well, and ended up sleeping through most of the day. Sunday morning I woke up and discovered I had a fever that had broken overnight. I felt fatigued, and again slept through the majority of the day. Monday morning I was back...