Husbands, Wives, Clothes
Dear O.: I know I've been hassling you lately to get rid of some clothes and to go shopping with me. I know it's a pain, because I was not always on this side of the great divide between the keeper of...
View ArticleWinter Clothes
Winter forces me to think about clothes. This year, with more time on my hands and more adults in my social circle than ever before, I have been more conscious of how I dress, and I've gotten more...
View ArticleYear end reflections
Seven days left in the year, and seventeen posts to go before I hit 100 posts for 2012. It feels odd to be writing to fulfill a quota, "inauthentic." But a goal is a goal, writing requires discipline,...
View Article"Life of Pi"
Last Tuesday, O. and I had a movie date. I was originally inclined to see "The Hobbit," but after watching the trailer for "Life of Pi," I was convinced that it was a movie worth seeing on the big...
View ArticlePoint Reyes
We drove two hours up the coast to Point Reyes National Seashore today. After a picnic and many deer-sightings, O. and I began a six mile hike to the coast, where blue sky meets blue water, and the...
View ArticleWassail
On Christmas day, my family was singing "Here we come a-caroling," and the lyrics I remembered did not match the words in our songbooks. I remembered a version from a long-ago video featuring Peter...
View ArticleHomes
Here I am typing away on my mother's ergonomic keyboard, the keyboard I often typed essays and emails on in high school. I am sitting on her rolling chair, which I have sat on many times over several...
View ArticleRetirement Home
There is no denying that my parents are older now than they were a few years ago. Bifocals and presbyopia are dinner conversation, and hikes are shorter, particularly following my mother's bunionectomy...
View Article2012 Challenges
It's Ten Thousand Questions Day! This week at Ten Thousand Questions, the theme was Highlights of 2012; I intend to answer the five questions today (in five posts, since I am still aiming for 100 posts...
View Article2012 Decision
Highlights of 2012 (2): What was your biggest question or biggest decision this year?Will O. quit his job? When? What will happen next?Those were the early November questions. O. did quit and is now...
View Article2012 Person
Highlights of 2012 (3):Who is your Person of the Year — the person who had the biggest impact on your life, or who provided the most inspiring example for you?It's O.!Is it cliche to cite my husband as...
View Article2012 Learning
Highlights of 2012 (4): What was the most important thing you learned this year?Probably the Speaker-Listener Technique, our marriage counselor's first lesson for us. This communication protocol is...
View Article2012 Gratitude
Highlights of 2012 (5): What are you most grateful for this year?I'll put down the top five things in my life/year that I'm most grateful for, in order of importance:Improved communication and...
View ArticleNew Year's Resolution (1)
In 2013, I will floss my teeth every day, unless my hand is grievously wounded or there is no floss anywhere in the city.Hold me to it, readers.
View ArticleNew Year's Resolution (2)
In the first six months of 2013, before we begin another cross-country journey and move (this time together), I want to finish reading certain books. It will be like a semester of pre-grad-school--only...
View ArticleCalifornia Horizons
O. and I are planning to move out here to California at the end of June, after my sister graduates from her east coast school. I can't wait--well, I can wait and I am glad to stay a while longer...
View ArticleNew Year's Resolution (3)
I resolve to see more of New York City while I still can!visit each borough at least once (I haven't been to the Bronx or Staten Island or Brooklyn)go to the Bronx Zoo and the Central Park Zoosee a...
View ArticleFood Poisoning
Yesterday was a milestone in our young marriage: I witnessed O. vomiting for the first time.On Saturday night, we had taken my parents out to dinner at a local Mexican place they've started going to...
View ArticleBeautiful Things
A year and a half ago, at a service at MPPC, I heard a song that made me cry. It was played as background music to a video then. I have completely forgotten the video, but the song is burned into my...
View ArticleAway
O. is away, visiting his grandparents across an ocean and a continent. All my recent journal entries begin with the count of how many mornings O. has been away. This morning was the fifth.After...
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