“I thought maybe I got off your e-mail list somehow,” my former piano teacher told me today. “But then I went on your blog and saw you just haven’t written anything in a while. ” This is true. I’m not sure why I haven’t written. Not for lack of adventures–that’s for sure. So here’s a little taste of what…
Category: Family
Travel–Times Two
In February, my mother called to tell me a surprise party was being thrown for my grandmother’s 90th birthday the following month. It was to take place in New York, where she lives. That meant, in order to attend, I would have to hop a plane or drive twelve hours. I called my boyfriend, Michael. “So Grandma…
A Belated Christmas Gift
Jessica was the second sibling to receive a hand-made crocheted blanket from me. As she pulled her Christmas gift from its wrapping, the family ooh’ed and aah’ed. “How long did it take you to make that?” Meg, my youngest sister, asked. “Forty hours,” I said, without hesitation. “How do you know that?” “Well, I timed how…
Me? An Introvert?
“Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert?” he asked me. We met just three hours earlier, and already our conversation had covered religion and poverty, our life stories, and now personal reflection. But this happens all the time when I get in a conversation with the unconventional-traveler types: in this case, a couchsurfer….
Some Things Never Change. Need proof? Read your tenth-grade diary.
When my friend Carolyn first told me about Mortified I was intrigued – and just a wee bit appalled. Basically, people go back and find things they wrote when they were kids – stories, diaries, letters, song lyrics – and read them on stage to a group of strangers. It sounded like some odd new…
Weddings – Thankfully, Not My Own
I’m not one of those girls who has always imagined what my wedding day would be like. In fact, I haven’t thought much about it at all. But I’ve been present for the stress and cost of plenty of weddings – so much so that I’ve told my mother for years that my wedding will…
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…
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