mackenzieberg

Only rock and sun

June 5, 2015 Uncategorized

Our summer of the Weekday Warriors has begun. Friday through Sunday I get up before it’s light and work until the heat of late afternoon, walking the floor of the nursing home until I sweat and ache, counting over 10,000 steps, lifting frail bodies, coaxing heavy limbs to move, fielding orders, savoring tiny moments of connection with souls who are mostly lost to other dimensions, and earning just enough to pay the rent and buy coffee beans. Monday through Thursday, the world is now very different. NoRead More

Pretty grand, damn lucky

March 6, 2015 Uncategorized

It’s been a long while since I’ve been back to Kabiki. The last time we saw each other was in early June, for an adventure in the San Juans right after I finished the first semester of nursing school. Actually, she was laid up, on the hard in a South Park boat yard at first, while she received new through-hole fittings and bottom paint. We were short on funds then, or shorter than we are now, and so we livedRead More

Any road will do

April 1, 2014 Uncategorized

The radio broke approximately fifteen minutes into the start of our eight-day journey. A sign of sorts, perhaps, but of what? We didn’t know. Only that it served us right for buying the damn thing at Walmart, against our better judgement. Our ultimate destination wasn’t clear. We just wanted out, away, far, distant, detached. Any of those words would do, any roads really would do, as long as everyone was happy and accounted for—that being me, him, and the dog.