Where I spray-paint my thoughts…
Above is a not-very-great picture of me doing the thing that has, hands-down, given me the most personal satisfaction and enjoyment during the long weeks of pandemic lockdown: preparing food hampers for home delivery out of our (otherwise unused) church basement. For five years we've been running a hot meal program every second Sunday, but …
Continue reading "Lighting Candles in Corners: Some Thoughts on Charity"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjra8ELd2uM&lc=Ugy0N4zZVN_erfL7m7N4AaABAg I like round numbers, and the school year is really over now, so Day 100 seems like a good time to say this is the end of my "strange times" videos, though not the end of the global pandemic. Mostly for my own benefit when looking back later: here's the whole playlist of my Strange Times …
Continue reading "Strange Times with Trudy, Day 100: End of an Era"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_iCM_A5nxk Here's a look back at a goal I set for myself at the end of April, with some updates and a real-time glance at how my COVID-19 hairstyle is going. That's not what the video is about, but it's a free bonus feature.
In which I kinda-sorta go back to work, but not really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE8UO5RF5pU
Just another video update on Life in the Time of COVID-19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiYBM5SBUqU
Today, we are 9 or 10 weeks into pandemic "lockdown" -- numbers vary depending on where you live and what your personal situation is like. Where I live, we are on the path to a gradual re-opening that is, predictably, far too gradual for some people and much too fast for others. Amid all this …
Continue reading "The Great Tunnel Fire, and a Return to “Normal”"
If you've ever wanted to watch me on a crappy webcam for nearly an hour, this is the video of a livestream reading and Q&A I did last night, where I read from A Roll of the Bones, answered some reader questions, and gave a sneak peek of the beginning of the sequel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izhaqUhY3w0
Here's a thing we did that consumed a lot of time at our house last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np1x_Mud0ic
I was very young, probably in early elementary school, the first time someone showed me the image above and asked "What do you see?" I saw two people looking at each other, of course, because what else would you see? Until someone pointed out there was a vase there as well, and after that, I couldn't …
OK so today was Day 46 of me being home -- but I made this video yesterday, Day 45 ... about something that happened on Day 44. I set a goal; I reached my goal; I made a really dumb mistake that nearly undid all my work towards that goal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd1m751l2_c
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