This month has slipped by, and it seems as though we only recently returned from Sicily while my calendar indicates 29 days have lapsed.  I don't have much to show for it, other than some classes taken(6) and classes taught (8), several books read, pool opened, a one year wedding anniversary thoroughly celebrated, and the mystery of the cat-pee-smell resolved.  I have made a few paintings and several drawings.

The blues that accompanied our return home have left (hurray!) but my inner critic ...
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I didn't expect jet lag, because when we went to Sicily last year I didn't experience it in either direction.  Fortunately it didn't hit me at all while we were there, but I've got a case of it now.  Dizziness, nausea, achiness, a general malaise.  Bleh.  I'm grateful at least to be sleeping through the night, and also to be waking around 6 am. I read it can take up to as many days as time zones crossed to recover:  that means I might still be queezy through Tuesday.  Ah, well.

Cincinnati is g...
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