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to girlfriends past
Next week, B. and I are having lunch with a woman who was his girlfriend in his second year of law school. Although I have never met her in person, we certainly have communicated over the past nearly-thirty years, for as long as B. and I have been married. Incredibly intelligent (with a brilliant legal […]
in defense of scarlett
The arguments against Scarlett O’Hara are far from few and very far from far between. Selfish, petulant, demanding, spoiled – and that’s even before we get to Twelve Oaks for the barbecue in the very beginning of the movie. (The fact that she has an 17-inch waist doesn’t help her case either, but those are […]
where ya been?
Yes, I know it’s been a while. It’s been several months since my last blog post and, while I don’t flatter myself into thinking that it’s been noticeable to you, my readers, it has been noticeable to me. My reason for not writing? It’s been just too difficult to find something to write about – […]
on my dishlist
There’s a line from the movie Love Story, said by to-the-mantle-born Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O’Neal) – the preppiest of Harvard students, so wealthy that his family has a hall named after it – to his poor-in-money-but-rich-in-style, brilliant, Radcliffe girlfriend Jennifer Cavilleri (Ali Macgraw): “See Jenny – you can dish it out but you can’t […]
dodging the blues
“When all the world is a hopeless jumble,” goes the seldom-heard intro lyric to Somewhere Over the Rainbow – well, that “when” appears to be now. In these days of uncertainty (to say the least), all we can be certain of is how important it is to hold on to our hats and our hearts. […]
drumroll, please
Today is Hug a Drummer Day, the perfect occasion for me to salute my own once-drummer, B. – and to rerun this post from a couple of years ago about how I married an “almost” rock star. (Okay, he was just a little kid with big dreams, but you gotta love the heart.) Two, three, […]
dear little birthday girl
To everyone who follows my blog: You may notice that you’ve seen this particular post already, in March of this year, in fact. I’m reposting it because I inadvertently deleted it from WordPress and I wanted to put it back as part of my writing adventure and history. In reposting, though, it is automatically sent […]
notes to self
Time is a funny thing (strange funny, that is; ha-ha funny, not so much). We see it pass in our own faces and in the faces of those we love, in the faces of the places we used to know, and on the face of things in general. Feeling those passages seems to leap out […]
can you keep a secret?
There are some people who love to be kept in suspense. Whether it’s as tame as taking a chance and deciding to serve guests a recipe you’ve never made before, not knowing how it will turn out; as adrenaline-fueled as daring to take on the very next wave that rises up, sight unseen, not knowing […]
got game?
I’ve often said that because B. and I chose not to have kids, we ourselves often act as if we’re five (okay, I act as if I’m six). My point being that playing is a priority these days. So on our most recent vacation, we thought we’d up the fun quotient and take a stash […]
rice on your head 