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In Which I Wax Philosophical As Summer Speeds By…
Posted on | August 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
One minute you’re waiting impatiently at Baggage Claim at the airport for your daughter to step off the plane and begin her summer vacation. While you wait, you fantasize about all the fun things you’ll do together: a couple of day hikes, floating leisurely around in the criminally underused backyard swimming pool, a little shopping, cooking her favorite meals together. [...]
My Favorite Accessory
Posted on | June 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
In conversation with eyeglasses-wearing, outrageously creative Kim Werker the other day, I began to reflect on my own love for eyeglasses and how they have come to represent, in a couple of weird ways, my own creativity. Yes, it’s strange, but I feel naked without them. I think better when I’m wearing them, or at the very least [...]
Getting Old Is Not For Sissies
Posted on | June 12, 2010 | No Comments
I can say that because a) I just had another birthday and it made me wonder if it would be kosher to start subtracting rather than adding a year from this point forward, and b) tonight I’m on my way back to New York to spend another week helping out with my parents. New round-the-clock [...]
Up In The Air
Posted on | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m no Ryan Bingham, and certainly no (spoiler alert!) cheatin’ Alex, but lately I’ve been up in the air way too often for my liking. Air travel takes on a whole new perspective when you’re doing it because you HAVE to instead of because you WANT to. While I’d do anything for my family, this [...]
Happy Anniversary
Posted on | February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
My long-suffering husband and I have been married thirteen pretty wonderful years as of today. Last night we went out for dinner to celebrate at a local restaurant where the staff spoiled us rotten; they seemed so happy to see us, and were so attentive that it seemed almost ungrateful to quibble over the weak cosmopolitan that had been described [...]