Whatever life dishes out, and whatever we can make of it. . .
Posted in Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting on Sep 2nd, 2010
Yesterday I was doing some editing and talking on the phone, when I was told to look at the news. A man had taken hostages at the Discovery Channel just outside of Washington, DC. There was a gun, and possibly explosives. I got off the phone. I put on CNN. I watched, and then had [...]
Posted in Business, Culture, Morning Musing, Other Stuff on Sep 1st, 2010
Did you attend the Fletcher School of Diplomacy? No? How about the Parental School of Hard Knocks? The Dating School of Hard Knocks?
Any of these might serve as some assistance. You know – in those sticky situations when a friend needs to hear the truth. A hard truth. One that will hurt, and there’s nothing [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting on Aug 31st, 2010
I don’t know when it happened, exactly. Whether I flipped a switch, or the lighting changed more gradually, as if a dimmer had slowly illuminated a new space. But I recognize that it happened some time ago, and it feels like a natural process – inhabiting this territory where the focus is off my experience [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting, Sexual Politics on Aug 29th, 2010
Unguarded
I have been writing from an unguarded place, and I do not do so often. I am uncomfortable here; my survival depends on privacy, and my own ability to maintain a certain distance from approaching realities in order to persevere – the clarity of facts and figures, debt and expenses, and the clock ticking, all [...]
Posted in Morning Musing, Parenting, Travel on Aug 28th, 2010
It’s here. Again. A day of last minute laundry and packing, goodbyes, airports. The house, suddenly so quiet, as my teenager prepares to fly back to college. To begin his sophomore year.
It was an evening of more loads of wash than I can count, the heap of luggage in the living room finally emptied, in [...]
Posted in Language, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting on Aug 26th, 2010
I am the face of the aftermath of divorce, the aftermath of layoff, the aftermath of defeat. I am the face of invisible illness, of piercing isolation, of daily hide-and-seek.
Would you know me if you saw me?
I am your neighbor, your colleague, your sister; I am the woman who yells at the cashier [...]
Posted in Fashion and Style, Health, Lifestyle, Morning Musing on Aug 24th, 2010
When I was younger, easy fitness options were abundant. I was strong and vibrant, and health clubs were affordable. There were 5-mile hikes for pleasure, and there was disco! Not that I took advantage of dancing for fitness and enjoyment as much as I would have liked. Work was always pressing, and time, in short [...]
Posted in Morning Musing, Parenting on Aug 22nd, 2010
Are you parenting partying teens? Care to hear my ten tips for surviving party chaos? For surviving normal chaos? The planned, the unplanned, the assumed stuff of parenting pandemonium?
Yes, it’s Sunday morning. (Insert *sigh* of relief.) Yes, for the moment it’s quiet. (Sigh number two.) No teenagers as yet stirring in the kitchen, after another [...]
Posted in Health, Language, Lifestyle, Morning Musing on Aug 21st, 2010
Rain is streaming down the window panes. Less so than last night, but the morning sky remains an angry, bloated charcoal. The house sleeps, though I am awake. “It’s Saturday,” I remind myself, taking a deep breath. “I can do nothing.”
I sip my coffee. I listen to the quiet. I type an email to a [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Morning Musing on Aug 20th, 2010
I woke in the middle of the night not feeling well, knowing it was probably nothing but that I’d have to sit it out, and unable to sleep, I decided to do a little reading.
I flipped open my laptop, and found an amazing story on msnbc.com, about Huguette Clark, the reclusive 104-year old heiress who [...]
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