I know the picture above is a little hard to make out (sorry). It is the “wattage zones” guide I have used over the last 8 weeks as I have taken a spin class that met every Friday morning. The first Friday, we did a threshold-type test to figure out…

Hey! Another night of tired writing at 11:04 p.m.! Here’s why I picked the graphic of a broken plate. A friend of mine had her family’s beach house redone by one of those “makeover” shows a few years ago. …

For the past two weeks or so, I have had a minor medical thing that was bothering me. I kept vacillating — should I try to get in to my PCP and reorganize work during a very busy two weeks? A week ago Saturday, I had a speaking engagement in…

This doesn’t really have that much to do with “light,” but it’s on my mind. Tonight, I participated in Tallahassee’s Neighborhood Leadership Academy, which I’ve been doing every Tuesday for a few weeks now. Some of our sessions have been virtual (thanks, COVID-19), but gratefully the night dedicated to the…

I have no idea what I can say about Halyna Hutchins, someone I certainly didn’t know, for five minutes, but I think I need to try. Her death in an on-set accident has generated so many questions, so much grief, so many recriminations. …

I thought today’s post was going to have “Maid” as a springboard again, because I recalled a passage where Stephanie spoke about her goal of being a writer. …

Okay, now I have a bee in my bonnet. I wonder if all nine of the rest of these posts are going to be about Valencia, Spain (frankly, there could be worse things, right?). If you saw yesterday’s post, you know that my response to the prompt “still” was about…

I’m reading “Maid” by Stephanie Land right now. I have about an hour left to go in the audiobook, so I’ll know how this all works out pretty soon, but at the point I’m at right now, she is stuck in an unhealthy, small, moldy apartment in Washington state that…

Sometimes, when we have news we don’t want to give, we say, “I’m afraid that’s just not going to work out. Have you ever thought about the little (or big, I guess) insertion of “afraid” there? We do it to show that we know the news is not going to…