It’s Christmas week. Icicle lights dangle in the window. Electric candles glow on the sill. Multi-coloured bulbs twinkle from the Christmas tree. I sink into the couch. Take off my glasses. And watch it all go out of focus. I am near-sighted. Very near-sighted. Most of the time I wear contact lenses but not, of…
Month: December 2019
Frozen Delights
Beneath the drain pipe at the corner of my house sit five rain barrels. My husband has connected them together with lengths of hose so that when the first barrel fills, the water flows into the second one, and so on. The barrels are covered with pieces of plywood weighed down with bricks to keep…