Gabey's Place

 Just a speedy update to mention that I began physical therapy a couple of weeks ago. The latest X-rays show that the fracture line is less ...

I'm still home, still recuperating from surgery, and was getting ready to reach out to my surgeon and my boss about resuming working fro...

 I am still reeling from the loss of JFM on Wednesday. He was as close to being Auntie Mame as most of us are ever going to encounter in thi...

 JFM had been in hospice for the past several weeks. We knew the time was approaching when he had to transfer to inpatient hospice instead o...

 I have gone al-in with journaling in recent weeks. Well, I started journaling in earnest sometime last year -- offline, not anywhere that t...

As a form of self-care, today is not going to be a day where I spend much time on social media. I will spend my day off reading and listenin...

In 2016, it was possible to have some benefit-of-the-doubt to grant, and presume that a lot of well-meaning folks were hoodwinked. But in 20...

 Our friends group lost one of our own last Sunday. John R., who has had legions of serious medical issues for a long time, had gone back to...

 Since my most recent post, many fabulous things have happened. Primary among these is the fact that Mark and I closed on a condo in our Vit...

 Before today, the largest document I’d ever had to scan was 492 pages long. This morning, I received one that had been shipped to us in a c...

 I never thought, 20 years ago today, that I still would be updating a blog here and there. I might be here less frequently now, given the r...

 Late last night, I received a message that Blogger had rescinded the warning label on my post. Hurry, go to my 06/30/03 post and read it, b...

 Well, THAT was bizarre! I just got an email from Blogger, alerting me that one of my posts was put behind a warning screen for having sensi...

 I was the recording secretary of the Philadelphia Phantoms Phan Club for at least the final 6 years of the team's tenure in Philly. So ...

 I have a collection of various and sundry distraction-free devices on which I like to write. Basically they are non-internet-connected word...

  Welcome to my week from purgatory. Last Saturday, another unauthorized withdrawal was made from our bank. The NEW account, that we created...

 I am thinking about the fact that in May, I will have had this blog for 20 years.  I will have to celebrate on that day. I'm not sure h...

  Well, this is going to be a relaxing vacation week, possibly a tad quieter than we had anticipated. We are isolating for 5 days. Mark took...

I have two black cats. Merlin is petite at 9.5 lbs. Houdini is huge at 15.7 lbs. We have three cloth kitty tunnels, cloth tubes with a wire ...

 To make a very long story short, I wound up subscribing to a background check site for 3 days of unlimited usage. I had to find a person wh...