“Have you read this book yet?” I asked the clerk behind the counter at the used book store. I held up “Around the World in 80 Dates.” “No,” she said, “but it looks interesting.” I thought so, and for three bucks it was mine. It combined two interests of mine: travel and meeting men. I’m…
Month: August 2010
The Two Thousand Dollar Question
On explaining to a friend that one of my girlfriends just spent two thousand dollars to hire a matchmaker, he said, “If she’s wants to invest two thousand dollars in order to find a guy to marry, that’s not how she should spend it.” He continued, explaining what he thought she should use that money…
Serendipity and Collages
I got an e-mail that the local library was doing a class on collages. Yes, collages. Remember those? Tearing images out of magazines, arranging them somehow, gluing it all together? Well, adults do it too…and sell them for quite a bit of money. (Well, our teacher does at least!) Realizing I hadn’t been on an…
Myths of the Sisterhood (Part 2)
I described the house where I was saying to my sister Liz. “It’s right on the ocean – on a bluff. There’s stairs down to the beach. Actually, it used to be an old inn and the brochure aid ‘seven steps to the sea.’” I had been to this house many times in the last…
Myths of the Sisterhood (Part 1)
It was two years ago that I did my first stint as sous-chef at Villa Marguerita – the vacation home on the Rhode Island coast belonging to the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame. They work hard in their various ministries – at schools, hospitals, and other non-profits – and then come here for…
On Invitations and Planning
On Friday, a woman was described to me this way: “She was the kind of person who never turned down an invitation. She said if she did, they might stop asking.” I’ve seen that from both sides. I’ve stopped asking people that continually turn me down. I’ve also been the one to repeatedly turn down…
We made the paper:)
There were a photographer and reporter visiting Sisters Hill Farm the same week I was there. Here’s the article as it appears this week in the Catholic New York. And yes, that’s me in the picture.
A Memoir of Moving
I was reading a book called When Wanderers Cease to Roam. As a wanderer, I wondered if I’d find some secret to staying put. But it wasn’t that kind of book. It was a woman’s month-by-month collection of watercolors and drawings and written memories of her life abroad and her life in the town where…
On Sharing
Loved this post by my friend Stacey. Well worth the read:) http://runningmonologue.com/2010/07/30/take-another-little-piece-of-my-heart-now-baby.aspx
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