Red's Wrap
Happiness. It's relative.
Category: Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant
10 Butterflies
I am changing my writing life. First of all, I am having an actual writing life rather than a writing pastime which is what I had before. I still look at sundown as the cue to start writing and start drinking, those two activities… Continue Reading “10 Butterflies”
Unsaddled
I am only now realizing how tiresome I must have been back in the days when I had to be the smartest person in the room or die trying. Correcting people’s facts, adding ‘clarification’ that no one asked for, and always, always wanting to… Continue Reading “Unsaddled”
Morning Hug
It is four in the morning. I check my phone and turn off the alarm just as it is about to ring. I have been awake for several minutes, looking out the window at the white stucco house across the street and waiting for… Continue Reading “Morning Hug”
Swivel Chair
My old tax returns made me sad. I looked at my business income, held that year’s wad of 1099’s from clients, and then fed each year’s tax return into the shredder. One can’t make a scrap book out of financial records, after all, so they… Continue Reading “Swivel Chair”
Car Note
It was like old times. I fled to my car, my beloved old Thunderbird. Behind my big sunglasses, I let my eyes fill up just like they used to. It all came back to me. How it felt moving through the world unable to… Continue Reading “Car Note”
Apology
Sorry, you’ve become Too much trouble to talk to Shouting exhausts me __________ Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash
Nome Friday Round-Up
Not that many places are unforgettable but I think Nome is. Sadly, I don’t think I’ll ever be back. What I’ve collected up this week by way of stones and stories will have to do. I’ve thought about that the whole time, telling myself… Continue Reading “Nome Friday Round-Up”
Pulling
We watched the middle weight horse pull today at the Wisconsin State Fair. Two-horse teams pull a truck loaded with heavy weights. When we left, the weight was 3,250 pounds aiming for 4,000 before the event was over. The horses strain and pull, sometimes… Continue Reading “Pulling”
Cochlear Implant Update
I wear this thing on my head. Looking at it now in the photo, it strikes me as enormous, a contraption. I wonder why people don’t just stop in their tracks and ask me what it is. But they never do. It’s like seeing… Continue Reading “Cochlear Implant Update”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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