(Editor’s note: Although I mention categories of people in this post, please do not read any judgement into it). I don’t often talk about my year in New York, the one I spent right out of the year in Taiwan, which was right out of college. I arrived there ready for adventure, having lived a year abroad, and landed at… Read More
When I was small, my parents who were very young and couldn’t rub two cents together, made the smartest decision ever. They bought a cheap house, planning to upgrade in later years. I must have been about two or three when we moved in and my very first memory is of my mother walking around the newly installed dining room… Read More
Today I enjoyed myself very nicely. It was finally sunny out and I was able to work in the garden in my shirt sleeves. (Can girls say they’re out in shirt sleeves)? I finished planting the clematis that will cover the ugly cement wall behind the lavender and I put the remaining two grape plants in place next to the… Read More
Bonjour Docteur. No, it’s my first time here. I’m here to renew a prescription for Zoloft. Here’s my old prescription but I think it’s for the minimum dosage. I won’t ask you to double the dosage as tempted as I am (laughs brightly). Okay peeeerfect. So, there’s also this varicose vein that I have and I just want to make… Read More
When apricot buds burst and new plants thirst; When projects abound and tulips break ground; When the kids are home from school and you break all your own rules; When you give in and finally get an electric trimmer and you are utterly uninspired for dinner; When toys are left out all year and, what the heck’s going on out here?!… Read More
My favorite people to spend time with are the ones who laugh, who make me laugh. They are the ones who can drop everything at a moment’s notice to grieve with me, to cry with me, to listen to me, but who generally see the world as I do: 10% sorrowful and 90% ridiculous. I love to laugh – at… Read More
