In the night in These titles mean nothing.

I’m awake in the middle of the night a lot. I don’t mind. I nap in the daytime. I suppose it would be better to be awake in the daytime and asleep in the night but that would take more discipline than I seem to have.

I went to writers group yesterday. It’s at 10 am but I have to leave at 9 am to get there comfortably early. I overslept - it was after 9 when Jim came in and woke me up. I was only 15 minutes late but it put a different spin on the day. There were 12 people there, 3 men, more men than I think ever before. I had printed out an old story that I wrote for my old writer’s class and I read that. The topic was supposed to be personal crimes - stolen watermelons, adult library books taken out by pre-adults, someone who took back buggy flour to the grocery store, one man’s pickup lines, and my fictional girls playing jacks in Central Park who won a paper sack full of hundred dollar bills from two men and used the money to buy a new car. I seem only able to write fiction about cars. It’s a broad field though.

I had intended to write about John’s phone being stolen in London. It’s a good story and I would have written it here of course. But I didn’t do it. I haven’t done it. Yet. Of course. Jim talked to John a few days ago and he said the phone is now in Dubai. He’s able to track its location. It stays in one place for several days and then it moves but it stays in Dubai. He was able to get a new phone the same night he lost his old one. He got the same number and had his contacts restored but he didn’t get his photos back. What a brave new world we live in. Small and intricate and polished like a diamond.

Today I have agreed to visit my sisterinlaw at 1 pm. I hope I don’t oversleep for that engagement. She contacted me through Facebook -=I wrote this before. She’s written her life story and she has a copy for me. I wrote that before too. I haven’t seen her new house since it’s been completed and I look forward to that as well. My sisterinlaw is a unique person. I wonder if we could become friends in old age. I don’t suppose. I have no gift for friendship. But I will go see her tomorrow. She says we can have coffee.

One picture.

The closest I came to the ocean on my trip. A branch of Galway Bay that came into the Lisconnor. Katie and I had gone for an early morning walk and found 4 dogs, 1 snail, 1 pony and countless seagulls. Katie heard a cat.