It’s funny the things that spark a great memory: a smell, a song, the wearing of a coat… The Michigan weather has been (to put it mildly) a challenge since I arrived here five weeks ago. I have dug my car out of two feet of snow, waded through slush, experienced a false spring, determined […]
I was in a bar last Saturday night. A roadhouse without much to commend it – wide open, a surly barmaid, a jar of pickled eggs (does anyone eat those things?), an empty stage and a couple of pool tables. The kind of place where you might cry into your boilermaker. Annie and I […]
Can you tell HOW stuck we are? There are times in life when you have to face the fact you are totally, royally screwed. There is a look you give the person you are with – a nonverbal exchange that says, “There is no easy fix here, we’re going to have to get creative […]
I spent the weekend away. I learned some things I will be writing about this week (feeling a little sleepy and behind the 8-ball this morning…), and I want to give you a teaser. The things I learned this weekend: How to play pool sober When you read a sign that says, “SEASONAL ROAD NO […]
I was waxing with someone at work about the fact I never get angry any more and David walked by and said, “What about Lloyd?” I’ll admit I did bring my moving woes to work (I don’t think you are supposed to do that, but he was such an ass…). I don’t mean I don’t […]
I was doing Pilates this morning. I’m feeling like the Tin Woodman with all this cold weather, in need of a can of oil. Anyhoo, as I was contorting on the floor of my den (I guess it’s a den – the-only-room-the-bookcase-fits-in is too obscure, and if I talk about moving the bookcase I’ll […]
I got an incredibly nice message from Rosalind last week. She likened my life to the parts of a book – a trilogy like The Hunger Games, or those books where everybody is battling moving tree stumps and armies on clouds to get the brass ring. Part 1 she says is the cliff-hanger: me tied to the tracks with […]
Get in a room with a bunch of addicts and mention the fact you used to hide a bottle of plonk behind the Drano in the utility cupboard, and everyone starts nodding like bobble-head dolls on a dashboard. It’s universal I think – this concept of hoarding your poison of choice in a “secure place”. With me […]
Where’s Waldo? Yoga class at the Lakeview Health Professional’s Weekend last year… I am often surprised and moved by a single, simple sentence. I was talking to Kristin yesterday and she was telling me about her positive experiences with yoga. I know yoga is good for many things, including centering the breathing and the mind […]
Seriously? I was thinking a blizzard was a good excuse to not write a blog post this morning. I had bigger fish to fry. There was a wall of snow behind my car where the latenight plow cleaned my parking lot and I had to do a sort of highland jig: stamping and kicking to […]