Middle-aged Angst
So you know how I’ve been pretending, ignoring, acting like this moving away thing is no big deal? It’s a lie. It’s wearing me out. Despite the garage sale and the big truck from Habitat for Humanity hauling away a bunch of furniture, and ten, twenty, more-than- I-can-actually-count trips to Goodwill to drop off car load after [...]
My friend Toni at Rock Star Massage in Bend, Oregon has been trying to get me to come in and test drive a massage for about two years. She even offered to do a trade so I wouldn’t use money as an excuse not to do it, but I kept putting it off, month after [...]
This is me and my friend Sissy. She just got a beach house. I liked her before she got the beach house, but now I’ll love her forever. Sissy has many friends who love her unconditionally. I’ve been on a couple of fun trips with this group in the past, including a jaunt to Cindy’s [...]
This doesn’t have anything to do with being chubby, a mommy, or running. This is just me being weird, scoring some great tickets to U2 in Vegas, putting my mannequin on an airplane, and making my best friend come along for the ride. I wrote a story about the Francine goes to Vegas adventure a [...]
After a lazy month of sporadic running due to “I can’t go running today” excuses involving the snow and ice, the sun came out and I finally got back in the groove, and went four times last week. Four days of running in a week is enough to make me feel like a runner again, [...]
Here’s the truth: I have too many bras. I’m embarrassed to tell you the exact number. There are so many that I can actually group them into little groups. If I were the organized type, I’d have custom, labeled dividers in my dresser drawers for each group. I wonder if Martha Stewart does. Here are [...]
Ideas are pictures. They flash through my brain, in color, instantly. Sometimes they’re a single frame, and sometimes they’re more like a quirky, saturated short film shot in Super 8. A good idea makes me tingle. And then I have to talk about it so I can figure it out all the way. Some ideas [...]
So a couple of months ago a brilliantly smart literary agent from New York emailed me out of the blue. She said she’d been reading my blog, she enjoyed my writing, and would I be interested in writing a book? Yes, I said. Yes, yes, yes. I am interested. I was born interested in writing [...]
One bad thing about living in a high density neighborhood is not having a yard. So we have to let the pesky little dog outside whenever he asks. Which is a bummer when it’s 20′ outside. Of course I just throw on whatever warm clothes are closest to the door. My family laughs, sometimes. But [...]
Neil Young – “Rust Never Sleeps” Pocahontas Lyrics Aurora borealisThe icy sky at nightPaddles cut the waterIn a long and hurried flightFrom the white manto the fields of greenAnd the homelandwe’ve never seen. They killed us in our tepeeAnd they cut our women downThey might have left some babiesCryin’ on the groundBut the firesticksand the [...]
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