Almost 30 years ago I had a bumper sticker that I pinned on the bulletin board over my desk. It said, “I’d rather be writing my novel.” I never put it on my car, of course, because that would be admitting publicly that I wanted to write a novel. I am still a pretty closetedContinue reading “Back In My Younger Days”
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The Winter of Our Discontent
It’s been bad. Maybe not everywhere but almost, and us New Englanders have had one WTF day after another. The travel conditions and gray skies were overwhelming by themselves but on top of that we had leaky roofs, window condensation, broken doors, broken bones, influenza, ice dams, pot holes, salt and slush and filthy mountains of snowContinue reading “The Winter of Our Discontent”
Let the Wild Rumpus Start
Post-Halloween post. Photo courtesy of my friend Kathy who, yes, made the costumes herself, and brought a gorgeous veggie lasagne with béchamel sauce for dinner. She is a wonder. Feel free to hate her. The holiday was the usual. There was back story, gluttony, foot pain, a pink foam wig and clip-on earrings, Obama eatingContinue reading “Let the Wild Rumpus Start”
Ashes to Ashes
Wow. Look at this shabby old blog. I haven’t been here since December last year. When I tried to get on I got kicked off for using the wrong password. It is dusty and rusty around here, let me tell you. How do you add an image? Why is this font so small? But theContinue reading “Ashes to Ashes”
I’ve Been Traveling Oh So Long
This time of year it’s so busy busy busy that I just get caught up in it like a branch in a river. There I go, past deadened raspberry brambles and soft sweet pines and peeling white birches. Over leaden brown rocks and sifting sand. Through nameless towns, crusted grey with salt, under bridges bearingContinue reading “I’ve Been Traveling Oh So Long”
Do You See What I See?
I went to watch this video of Junot Diaz and Karen Russell talking at the New Yorker festival, but first I had to sit through a commercial about Cover Girl’s Bombshell mascara. I learned that it’s an enormous breakthrough in mascara. It makes your lashes bigger, sexier, bombshell-like. This reminded me of a commercial forContinue reading “Do You See What I See?”
When You’re a Jet You’re a Jet All the Way
Over a month since I’ve been here and I don’t have a single decent excuse to throw at you. My head feels like a Ninja blender most days, filled with ice cubes and peanut butter and eggplant parmesan and big honkin’ Brazil nuts and liverwurst and gouda cheese and low sodium V-8. A smoothie fromContinue reading “When You’re a Jet You’re a Jet All the Way”
Court and Spark
I think it’s time I talked about my relationship with phlebotomists. Simply put, they love me. Not because I make their life easy, but because I am a challenge. I have lousy veins. They are tiny, always moving around, stingy and aloof. They play very very hard to get. And phlebotomist love this. Oh howContinue reading “Court and Spark”
Everything That Kills Me Makes Me Feel Alive
Here’s why I love music. It’s a weekday morning. You’re in your car heading for work but you take a detour. A Top 40 song comes on and grabs you. You turn it up, start singing, turn it up louder, start bobbing your head up and down. At the stop light people are looking atContinue reading “Everything That Kills Me Makes Me Feel Alive”
I’ve Looked at Life From Both Sides Now
I just finished reading two books that couldn’t be more different: Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple and The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields. Here’s how this happened. I had no intentions of ever reading the Semple book because the cover looks like Chick Lit and I had never heard of her. I passed by that book aContinue reading “I’ve Looked at Life From Both Sides Now”
In the Chair 