I traveled to Siberia once. I went backpacking in the mountains there, and while my surroundings seemed very familiar in some ways (creeks and conifers and distant crags) to places I have been in...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/time-for-another-break/
If you asked me right now how I am doing, socially, in my post-divorce life, I would tell you that things are improving. I don’t have close friends, but I do have a range of people I do things ...
My personal life has been a wilderness of difficult experiences for the last few years, and when I woke up earlier this week and realized our nation had elected Donald Trump as its president, I f...
I think I’m about as ready to date again as I’ll ever be. I have no dating prospects at the moment and I don’t know when that will change, but I’m not in a hurry; to hurry would be probab...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/thoughts-on-divorce-and-dating/
Some observations after 5 (?) weeks of substitute teaching: – The paras shield you from the hardest tasks and give you the easiest students to work with. Don’t get too cocky and think you hav...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/thoughts-on-subbing/
Sometimes subbing is rough: The kids don’t want to behave, and I leave school feeling like I spent all day telling people who aren’t paying attention to me to be quiet. That this narrative is...
Poem alert, y’all. (Just a warning in case you either like or avoid such writings.) A local poetry group was meeting this Sunday at a library near me and I decided on a whim to join them. I thi...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/sunday-poetry-in-the-city-of-trees/
It’s a grey morning outside, and the trees that are draped around the windows of my apartment are starting to turn yellow. I am subbing for a preschool class this afternoon, but this morning my...
Divorce sometimes feels like sitting on the floor in an empty room. Like during a move, maybe, when you’ve cleaned out part of your space and it’s all empty and strange feeling, but you know ...
https://pikaperdu.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/the-other-side-of-the-door/
In my closet there are a couple of bags of papers for sorting and shredding that I have ignored for years. This weekend I finally am going through them, and as expected, there are some painful me...