semi-random flotsam
It turns out that poulet yassa is a traditional dish in both Senegal and Guinea, helping me catch up on the culinary aspect of my misadventures.
I decided to work from this version, though I also found a Guinean recipe that I decided I could also try if this one seemed promising but wasn’t quite the thing.
Continue reading “Virtual African Loop: Chicken Yassa”As I type this, not as it posts, it’s the actual day of the actual Baltimore Festival of Running. I am not running. I did my marathon, twice, earlier this month.
But the air is crisp and the sun is shining. It’s a glorious Autumn weekend morning… it’s a lovely day to get out and move.
Continue reading “A song in – or maybe for – my heart”For someone awfully important
Happy birthday!🎁
❤️
So one of my old friends asked me a few days back, how I’ve been getting all my steps every day, even though I’m in so much. (As of course many of us are.) Continue reading “Old friends”
Though it may seem that way…
If September 1 has a theme song here, it’s Forty by Cuppa Joe. (I quite literally got 1/3 of my daily steps to it, on the very cheeriest of loops that day.)
On the other hand, September 6 doesn’t really have a single theme song. But if it had a musical mix, the GoGos must be played…
I tried a new workout
It didn’t seem like I was overdoing it
But I am feeling all the muscles in my legs. Continue reading “Oops I did it again”
Lights out. Settle, still.
What sounds like voices?
Try to locate… out back, out front?
It’s a steady drone but almost certainly with vocal intonations.
Like a distant TV or AM radio playing.
I don’t usually hear the neighbors through the walls. But maybe that’s what that is?
Unless it’s something else; some other white noise source with variations my mind is turning into voices?
Shush!
Well. That’s a bit irksome.
I’m tired. I’m not going to solve this mystery tonight.
White noise on.
Good night.
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Happy birthday miss Grace!
Ok so I wrote that title, and now I have Miami by Will Smith playing in my head.
Not the sense I meant – although half-dressed often applies in the pertinent scenario.
Well that was off topic.
This got more obvious as my state put a formal stay-at-home order in place as of last night. Not that I was doing otherwise. Anyway…
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While I continue to get my 30 minute workout, which in all fairness contributes to my daily 10,000+ steps (8 weeks and counting now, for both) — I’ve also been really trying to hit 250 steps per hour (for the 14 hours I’m awake, based on Continue reading “Stepping up (but not out – obviously)”
She didn’t want a funeral. A waste of money, a funeral, she’d thought.
But a gathering, a party, a celebration of life… this was more to her taste.
And so one last time, she brought us all together. In the spring, with new life.
