Author Archives: mathdreads
Don’t Eat the Dead Man
My sister gifted me some crabs that her next door neighbor had prepared. The thought of them sounded delicious, but as soon as I opened the container, I was apprehensive. Although I knew they were dead, I braced myself as if they would move. Even after I warmed one of them up, along with some … Continue reading
Father’s Day Axe Throwing
My sister and her family participated in an axe throwing event a few months after I’d done it for the first time. Apparently, my nephew was the guy to beat. As soon as my sister announced that they were coming down to celebrate Father’s Day with our 87-year-old father, I immediately said that I wanted … Continue reading
Mom’s Great Grand Kittens
Two years ago, a feral cat birthed a litter of kittens under the tarp that covered our hibachi grill. In that litter were a white cat and a black cat who may be the parents of the latest patio brood. We did not tag nor DNA-test the felines, but they definitely roamed around with their … Continue reading
Socks Bonus
In the nick of time, my bonus socks from work arrived on a Saturday morning. Their arrival had taken so long that when I’d asked for an update during a past meeting, one supervisor said that she’d heard that that email, asking for our sock size, was a hoax. Seeing is believing. I packed my … Continue reading
Mid-Week Art Night
I convinced my sister to go to an artists’ night with me. From the time we entered, she was the star of the show. Last year, she was ordained as a deacon. Born with a generous spirit, my sister usually attracts people. Before she’d warmed the throne, another woman gravitated toward her. As many things … Continue reading
Manifesting Spiderman
One of the pole fitness classes that I attend regularly is “Intro to Inverts,” which, out of context, sounds like a class for people who want to learn about introvert personalities. Instead, the physically challenging goal of this class is to perform various acrobatic exercises upside down on the pole. Initially, I thought there would … Continue reading
Packing for Ghana
The vast majority of my international travel has been financed by working as a secondary math/science/ELS teacher. Schools automatically took care of the many details. Yet for this trip to Ghana, no school is picking up the tab although, thanks to a very seasoned tour leader, many of the bureaucratic details such as getting a … Continue reading
Breaking the Rut
Three times in a row, the work week started off wrong. My personal life exacerbated a streak of the “Monday-est Mondays that ever Monday-ed.” A perfect storm for a bad mood. Exercising after work every day had little effect. My stiff left shoulder revisited. Initially, I experienced that painful condition when I first started taking … Continue reading
Brunch and Wine Mother’s Day
When I researched the closest “wine tasting” to where we lived, I didn’t take “wine bars” into consideration. That oversight meant that we’d whisked Mom nearly an hour’s ride away through beautiful country scenery to a place that allowed us to have a glass of wine along with sweet and savory prepackaged food for purchase. … Continue reading
Photo Album Memory Lane
After about a year and a half of typing up my journals at a frenzied pace, then finishing the six-month marathon of studying for my pharmacy tech certification, I finally began the task of scanning all of my photo albums. The original mission was to marry the pictures with the journal entries. And yet…it proved … Continue reading