Before all of this, Tuesday was Monday’s weird uncle. I’d have taken a dozen Mondays over one Tuesday. But now, Tuesday’s just another day that could easily be Saturday or Sunday. In the six-and-a-half years we’ve lived in our house, in the ten-and-a-half years we’ve been married, I’ve never sat across the kitchen table from …
Category: A Touch of Silver
Looking for silver linings in dark times.
A TOUCH OF SILVER: Springing To Life
I’ve secretly dreaded the arrival of April for a while now. Last year, that month ushered in unseasonably cold, wintery weather; a tough transition professionally; and the beginning of a nearly-five-month-long bout of depression. Any worries I had about personal history repeating have been replaced by a general sense of apocalyptic, existential dread, which, if …
A TOUCH OF SILVER: Ethan’s Got Talent(ed Friends)
I took a nap early this afternoon. When I woke up, the ground was coated in early-spring snow. We’re not getting as much in northern Vermont as folks are in the southern part of the state, but it adds a layer of dreariness to a pre-existing bummer situation. Scrolling through social media timelines a little …
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A TOUCH OF SILVER: Walking the Tic Tac
This afternoon my wife and I went for a walk up our street, onto a nearby dirt road, and off into a gently sloping field. We took our old Pekingese, Sally, with us. It was about 30 degrees colder than yesterday, but not so cold that the time outside was miserable. Just on the bare-handed …
A TOUCH OF SILVER: Write On
Welcome to A Touch of Silver. I’m going to be doing a lot more writing from here on out, so don’t be surprised if more and more stuff starts showing up on the ol’ blog. A Touch of Silver is going to be my (hopefully) daily attempt at finding the silver lining in these obsidian …
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