What did I expect really? That we’d go on vacation and be better versions of ourselves together? Yes, actually.
After three days in NYC, smiles at Top of the Rock, dinner in the Village at The Little Owl, brunch at Tavern on the Green, a stroll through autumn tinted leaves in Central Park; I’ve realized just [...]
Warning: In light of Halloween this weekend, allow me to share with you now a gruesome story. This is the part where it gets graphic and grody.
In a recent effort to take better care of myself, I am going to be all of 30 next year, I finally had a dermatologist check out some of [...]
“I’m bad at gifts,” he warned. “I can’t help it. It’s a strange thing, you know? The whole ‘all eyes on me’ part…”
“I know what you mean. I get that way too, but I think you’ll like this one. I KNOW you will,” I said with a smirk.
He began to tear away at the bow and I [...]
It’s always magic, that first snow.
The insulated quiet. The collective breaths fogging window panes. The childhood glee before the adulthood drudgery of shoveling, salting, bundling. The tangible symbolism of snow; clean, white, pure.
I wish it would snow so that I might recapture that first moment, first recognition, when we stood there smiling as snowflakes fell [...]
I love my job…I love my job…I LOVE my job. So much, in fact, that I’m feeling inspired to run away and join the circus right now- a delightfully colorful escape from today’s latest episode of idiocy side venture, except that I hold no discernible circus-worthy talents…no juggling or fire-eating or glitter leotard trapeze action [...]
“He’s a good one, I think. He seems to treat you well and he loves you and you always sound like you’re having so much fun with him,” she pursued over the phone.
Love…she said “love.” Hmmmm…
“But he doesn’t love me,” I admitted. It didn’t matter saying it aloud. Either way, it was still true.
“Really? How [...]
Today’s a bit of a Big Day around these parts. The host city for the 2016 Olympic games is announced (it’s between Tokyo, Rio, Madrid, and Chicago…which of these doesn’t belong?). As a resident of this vast, teeming metropolis, I can tell you that no matter what you’ve heard, Chicago is clearly “the shit.” Observe…..
O’Hare [...]
