Seems like there are people who want to boo the Nevilles off the stage or not see them at all since they weren’t back for the first two after Katrina – I’ve learned from watching how my five siblings handled the death of my father in 1985, not everyone grieves the same or over the same time period. It seems Aaron had his hands full with his wife’s cancer and his asthma. Seems Art had…
Flower says I overchippered and now that is why I am suffering a setback – my cold has gotten worse. No two ways about it. So I am laying low – real low – because I feel so low. I’ve gone through two boxes of Kleenex and so has Loca. She steals them out of the trash and rips them to shreds all over the carpet. Why I oughta…. But seriously – being sick sucks.…
November 15, 2007 I joyfully answer my soul’s call! I open up to a new idea of myself! That is my daily affirmation this morning and it seems so, I don’t know, joyous, exuberant, la di da! But this morning didn’t start like that. Forget about that certain someone who thinks (knows) her husband is cheating on her while he works at a job in Texas, that is honest to goodness jealousy. I was jealous…
That someone who thinks her husband is cheating just called me to say that I made her feel better yesterday by saying if she loves him, she can forgive him, because it’s probably only sex. She’s going to operate her own stealth sting and go sit outside his apartment and see if she can catch him. I said, be careful for goodness sakes – people do stupid things when they are jealous and angry. But…
Someone called me yesterday and said she needed to talk. She suspects her husband is cheating on her. Her husband has been working in Texas and coming home on weekends. When he comes home, they fight. They have an adolescent son. My response was not sympathetic, and I regret it. She said to me “I think he is seeing someone else and I need your help.” I said, “You want a divorce because I’ve had…
A friend describes this exchange to me – backstory: the people in question are ex-lovers: Man getting in car in front of house on his way to work. Sees woman rounding corner with dog. Woman trips on loose brick framing his front yard. Woman: “You better put that back in there or someone is going to sue you.” Man: “Are you going to sue me?” Woman: “No, you’re already unhappy enough.”
People are uncomfortable with incongruousness. I was speaking to a neighbor about a mutual friend’s parents, who I didn’t get a chance to meet because I was sick and they are leaving tomorrow. I asked, “What are they like?” – my neighbor replied, “Midwesterners, white bread, nice.” I said, “Oh. I wish I could describe my family in a similar fashion. Instead, I was speaking to someone the other day when my brother called and…
My friend complains to me today that her husband wants to have sex all the time. This is a problem? I ask.
This morning coming back from my walk – my mind still feeling like a bowl of jello from 24 hours laid up – I spied a small jade elephant that someone left on my front brick wall. Hmmm.