My Guardian Angel Drinks

Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox
3 min readMay 20, 2021

Whatever Heavenly being who’s in charge of watching over me has been hitting the sauce again. By the time you read this, the problem will have been solved; indeed, you can’t read this until this most recent problem has been solved, because I am cut off from the world as I write (with a pen on paper.) No Netflix. No land line. No Facebook. No way to check my bank balance. No way to find out what the temperature is or get the weather forecast. No Alexa. My modem is flashing a blue light to mock me. My internet connection is down until tomorrow. It went off yesterday. I’m not sure I will survive. If I don’t, I’ll…

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Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox

Former English professor ponders life, love, and how to leap tall buildings in a single bound.