My brother-in-law Danny took pity on Little One. The cat had, for most of its life, been in a home with a human caretaker and two feline house-mates, Taz and Puppy. But Puppy had died a few months earlier. Then Taz escaped out the front door not too long after that. And that human caretaker?…
Month: September 2023
A Friend Til The End
When 83-year-old Grandma Gallo wondered who would care for her very spoiled chihuahua should she predecease him, the only taker she had was my brother Jeffrey. But as Grandma got to 95, then 97, then 98, we worried she wouldn’t, in fact, die before her beloved Nicky-wicky (named after her deceased husband Nick because, she…
Walking Into the Unknown (aka the Camino Invierno)
In Spain, there exists a monthly magazine about the Camino de Santiago. The articles are beyond my level of Spanish comprehension, but the charts and graphs. . . those I can follow. This is how I learned that 438,000 people walked into Santiago de Compostela last year. Seventy-three percent of them arrived via the two…
A Camino Fail
Blog posts written about my first walk on the Camino de Santiago: 32 Blog posts written about my second walk on the Camino de Santiago: 0 —— My second Camino was a disaster. The route I chose was not well marked. Not that I would have seen the trail markers–it was raining so hard I…
Unplanned
“You should join us for Tuesday night dinners,” he said. “This Tuesday?” I asked. “Any Tuesday. Just show up at my place and they’ll be food and people.” “I’ll have to check my calendar and get back to you,” I said. “You don’t have to tell me if you’re coming or not. You can just…
If They Build It. . .
I have recently acquired a fear of blind curves. More specifically: blind curves in Spain. In the US, such road hazards are preceded by one or more signs: an image of a curvy road, the words “blind curve ahead,” or an encouragement to beep one’s horn to alert oncoming traffic of your impending arrival. Unfortunately,…
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