Gomez text me this morning to walk the dogs with him. After a chilling bayou walk yesterday with the wind cutting through my clothes, I went out with my rubber coat this morning, along with gloves, hat, scarf, etc. He said that yesterday morning he had run into D in her car with a bucket filled with water and a duckling who had gotten lost from the group. They searched in vain for the mother…
It was like this: you were happy, then you were sad, then happy again, then not. It went on. You were innocent or you were guilty. Actions were taken, or not. At times you spoke, at other times you were silent. Mostly, it seems you were silent–what could you say? Now it is almost over. Like a lover, your life bends down and kisses your life. It does this not in forgiveness– between you, there…
For a woman who has seemed in life to be hell bent on repeating past behavior a la Sisyphus – in the past few days, I was able to recognize a dilemma I found myself in – I still have one foot rooted in the old me and one foot barely grounded in the new me, and without being fully formed, I was growing increasingly confused about just exactly who I am and/or want to…
I spoke to a friend last night who started crying on the phone – she was in self-loathing mode and was beating herself up for recent behaviour that seemed to involve alcohol and men. Hmm, I said, well, welcome to the club of women older than a teenager and younger than an AARP card, who can’t seem to act right. Another girlfriend told me Saturday night that she overindulges in alcohol, the social lubricant, particularly…
Fox has cancelled the OJ book and television program about how he could have killed his wife. Yes, I know, so absurd that this even got past the door in idea gen, but thankfully the network did the right thing in the end so we should give them credit. A visit to the LaLa today and K told me that I picked the wrong paint because the red shows every handprint. M showed up semi-drunk,…
With the debate about getting my eyes done – L weighed in from California because T had alerted her to my ramblings on the subject. She said – don’t do it. On Thursday night, at a client event my company was sponsoring, I met a man (S) and was speaking to him about the companies I cover – Yahoo, Lamar, Aquantive, Pepsi, Hansen – and he said his colleague A had told him that they…
I thought about these things in quantities of three and at the end came to a conclusion: Things that make you go hmmm: 1. It took cheating on and leaving Steve for him to welcome children in his life. 2. Sometimes you love with all your big heart and still the beloved cannot love back. 3. You can love another’s child as if you gave birth to him yourself. Things that fill my soul: 1.…
Epiphanies always come when you least expect them. Sitting in the W lobby on first arriving in NY on Thursday afternoon – my body trying to withstand a system crash from too much champagne the night before coupled with only a fist full of trail mix on a Jet Blue flight – not too long later upchucked – while L was in the bathroom I noticed a man sitting across from me – a tall,…
Out of the mouth of babes – I learned from a young colleague of mine in NY that young men are shaving their balls because that is the right thing to do. He said, “we do it for you.” Nice. Apparently, older men aren’t aware of this trend and so C is making sure they know about it before they go back out into the dating life – he just shared his wisdom with another…
Last night in all our finery, L and T and I went to the big Saks Fifth Avenue gala after having two bottles of champagne and some twist and two lousy attempts at the Electric Slide. H dropped us off at the white carpet entrance and we walked in feeling all that. Inside we were shocked by all the bad face lifts and injectables and possibly the coup de grace was witnessing the plastic surgeon…