A friend of mine is turning 24 later this week. Twenty-four. She looks more like she’s 19! The really funny thing about it though is that she actually thinks she’s getting old.
Call it a design flaw of my mind, but I can’t help thinking about what I was like at her age (and yes, I [...]
Today is shaping up to be one of those days when I just want to punch someone. Say perhaps the lady “in line” in front of me this morning when I went to get coffee.
“EXCUSE ME! I was in line!”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
Glares and shuffling ensued. It was every woman (or bitch) for herself. And as [...]
There’s something about returning, if only for a day, to my once upon a time hometown. I’m one of the few who got out and, with my parents relocated, I’ve long since stayed away. But driving up the street of the neighborhood in which I grew up, it did something to me when we brought [...]
A bad day. A slump. A rut. Why is the day so bad? Why the mood so foul? I know why. And I do not want to write about it.
So I call up Boss Lady, or Grandma if you will. She doesn’t recognize my voice at first- despite my best intentions, I call too infrequently. [...]
According to every other commercial on the Discovery Channel, it’s Shark Week ‘09. I’m sorry, but my fear of the ocean aside, the sharks have nothing on my latest adventure and it happened on land. In fact, it happened on a balmy summer evening in my married friends’ 2 bedroom condo. Now also home to….baby.
After [...]
