I have been to France many times, but I have never been to Normandy. Angus has also been to Normandy but has only been passing through, so for the first time we both stopped and took a moment to explore the beaches and quiet places that dot the landscape and remind us all that [...]
Last week in ashtanga yoga, I experienced something I had forgotten about.
Ashtanga yoga is not like regular yoga, as you actually sweat like a maniac. It’s one pose into another into another without pause, and as such you really work it. You have to do this while trying not to laugh at the [...]
They say that you can tell the events that you know will change your life forever.
I have a few of these.
A manager pushing a binder to me across a desk, telling me this was my new project. It took me from Dallas to Raleigh, which took me even further into the snowy folds of [...]
My life tends to be good news and bad news. I guess that’s like everyone else’s life, too, it’s just hard for me to see that, living in my fishbowl like I do. This week is no exception.
Good News: I have discovered Azure Ray on iTunes and bought every song of theirs.
Bad News: [...]
When I was a little girl I was full of dresses and long hair. I had a round white face with chubby pink cheeks and enough strength to believe in myself no matter what. I was popular-part of a group, part of friends, someone who connected with those around her.
I’m not sure what [...]
On a warm summer’s evenin’ on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
I’ve never been much of a gambler. The first time I tried gambling was on a pit stop in Louisiana. I went into a casino when I was travelling from Dallas [...]
Yesterday Jeff chopped my knees out from under me and infuriated me. I would talk about it, but you know what? I am so depressed and unhappy I don’t even see the point. I get up in the morning and put my robe on and wearily open my email floodgates. I [...]
Every girl, woman or lady goes through periods of insecurity.
No really.
We really do.
I don’t care who you are-from man-eating Angelina Jolie to the PTA mom next door to the nice shopkeeper with the Dorothy Hamill haircut. We are all of us going to feel a twinge insecure at some point of the day/week/month, and [...]
Another day, another train to London.
Monday saw London dressed in smart casual to talk to Third in Charge. It was pockmarked by a visit to the doctor and a promise of surgery in a few weeks time for the broken ligament in my hand. Apparently it’s called a Trigger Finger, and mine is [...]
On Sunday I had two of my phobias confronted.
Saturday night Billie and her husband had stopped over at our house after a birthday curry with Karl (who has royally pissed me off, and more on that another day) for a slosh of wine and some gossip. Rising and shining on Sunday morning, Angus and [...]
Dear World,
Hi, remember me? We met at that messy do about 31 years ago, the one that involved a lot of screaming and placenta? That? Yeah, I’ve been working off a lot of karma in my life. For starters, have I finally paid back the time when I was 3 years-old, [...]
On top of my study bookshelf are four rolls of wrapping paper. One of them is bright blue with large flowers. One of them is cotton candy sweet pink with tiny flowers. And one of them is a creamy white, with tiny baby mice dressed in snugs and playing with sparkly yellow [...]
There are some days when you feel:
- Not very clever.
- Bloated.
- Busy.
- Proud of your boy.
- As if getting on a train home is the single greatest most important thing you can do, even beyond curing male pattern baldness or practicing your Russian.
- As though you should be spending a day in bed reading Middlesex [...]
No, that’s not a kind of salad dressing. You’re thinking of “vinaigrette”.
Because my head is kinda’ full and I have to hit the ground running today, instead of a post as long as Tolstoy’s sequal to “War and Peace” (a work tentatively entitled “War…What is It Good For? Absolut Vodka.”) I give you [...]
This morning I have to take my driving test.
That’s right.
I’m 31 years old, I’ve been driving since I was 15, and the last time I had a car accident that was my fault was 1993 (the days of Salt ‘N Pepa and Nirvana were reigning high that year, I remember).
The insult is massive.
I read a [...]
Last night I lit a candle.
In the darkness of the study and with a soft sigh in the air, I lit a candle on the windowsill and let the light reflect.
It all started last week.
I hadn’t heard from the clinic in London after sending off my precious envelope, so I decide to take matters into [...]
They say that people are fundamentally opposed to change (as in: the big life changes, not as in fear of the changing of the underpants. If you fear that, stop reading this blog right now and go get in the bathtub. Wash with both hands. Then burn all the undies you have.) [...]
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