5, 6, 7, 8 … Here’s something I might not have mentioned about myself that may or may not change the way you feel about me: I heart show tunes. I love the razzle-dazzle of musicals. I’ve driven alone in my car swooning to the ebbs and flows of The Phantom of the Opera’s “Music of […]
A few weeks ago a girlfriend sent a text to me and another woman about picking a date to coordinate a ladies night out to celebrate the holidays. “I want to make sure the date works for you guys before I send it out to the whole group,” she texted us. We went back and […]
My son came into the kitchen yesterday afternoon and took a look at the small TV on the counter, tucked into the corner between my toaster oven and colorful collection of knives, and asked, kind of surprised, “You’re still watching this?” He and I had turned on the Yankees game an hour earlier to catch […]
It happened around 7:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26 this year. That’s the moment when my youngest child – a boy who still kisses me full on the lips and likes to sleep in my bed – looked at me in horror when I suggested we go on a ride together at the annual firemen’s […]
I try not to live a life of regret. I try to frame the maybe-not-so-positive events that go down in my world as life lessons. This way of thinking makes my therapist very happy and I’m a pleaser so there you go. However, sometimes I do find myself second guessing decisions I’ve made. Wondering what […]
Here is the downside of going out nine times in ten days: you don’t really get a lot of stuff done. And while I’ve amassed about a book’s-worth of stories – oh my god, do I have some good stories – I can’t really write about most of them. I mean, you can call me […]
When I am dead, I would like the following engraved on my headstone: “She got what she wanted.” And while you might think that that is a really awesome thing, getting what one wants, I’ve learned over the last 40-blah-blah years that actually getting what you want is not all it’s cracked up to be. I […]
So, I was texting with a gentleman about our upcoming second date (I know), when the following conversation occurred with my 17-year-old daughter: Me (looking down at iPhone): “Dude, do you think it’s too soon?” Teenager: “Mom, are you crazy? It totally is.” Me: “I know, you’re probably right. I just really want to.” Teenager: […]
I remember the first time I heard my mother curse. I was about 10, eating breakfast at the big, round table that took up much of our small kitchen and she was opening a box of Devil Dogs – presumably to put in our school lunches and not to serve for breakfast, but this was […]
Dudes, the news is not good. On the cusp of tonight’s season finale of The Walking Dead, just prior to learning what terrible fate awaits Glen and Maggie (you know last week’s reunion was a wee too happy for that show) and what weird shit is going on at Terminus (because you know if something […]