Hello and welcome. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus, a podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along, the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation.

There is a fly on the white wall. I think it crapped out or maybe died, the evidence is the two spots next to the static fly. I don’t know if that’s what happens when flies die. What I do know is that flies live from 45 to 50 days. As time goes by I am reminded of mortality. Everything reminds me of mortality. I’m going to be forty, s ...