I’m tired of rushing through friends’ visits – yesterday I saw my friend who has had a lot of heart ache and our time together was rushed and reduced to soundbytes. Today I wanted to thank two friends who helped me during my party and instead I was whisked away by demands elsewhere. Meanwhile, a box arrived with a holiday gift from a friend this evening. In it was a calendar and each month held…
We’ve gone from snow to 79° now – humid too – I had to open the door to my office because it was getting hot in here and then before I knew it the buck moths that have been flying around tried to make their way in. They’re beautiful but annoying as hell.
Lying in bed between 12 and 5AM wide awake and dosed up on Advil Cold and Sinus I thought about all the things that lie front of me and all the things that went before. Given everything I know now about me, about life, about the people I have interacted with over the years – I’d say it’s impossible to believe I would have done anything different given hindsight. Well maybe a few things. But…
Enter the body of a woman about to turn 50 and you’ll want to run to the nearest refrigerator – it’s hot in there! The waves of hot flashes started at 42 but they come and go and go and come with no rhyme or reason. Couple that with a head cold and it’s own brand of fever and wheezing and coughing and it is a recipe for no sleep whatsoever. All in all its…
There is a zen saying that whenever a door closes, another opens and basically that sums up my life in general with maybe an added twist, which is that hardly ever has something great happened to me that wasn’t tempered by something not so great simultaneously occurring. So it is that life has a way of being awe inducing and humbling all in the same breath. We entered the realm of adoption ignorant and every…
Okay, so it’s the end of the year. There are all the reports to finish, cards to send out, parties to be had or attend, but my god, where is the time to sit back and reflect before the New Year comes rushing in a like a house on fire? It’s always go go go.
I’d like to begin by saying that I don’t think anything is set in stone and that if you don’t like something change it but I’ve yet to have a Monday it seems in recent history that wasn’t fraught with too many people vying for too little time. Why that is?
My mom called yesterday evening to say she really enjoyed the party. We were talking about what makes a good party. Certainly, Gal Holiday playing is a big plus. But I told her, it’s the hostesses job to bring the party out of the right people – and what we had here Saturday night was a glorious mix of the right people even though most are off center and not right, and needless to say…
We’ve been planning a party to celebrate the ins and outs of everything and finally got around to putting it on the calendar for December 13th. We sent a save the date email out to friends back in September, and responses ranged from why are you bothering me now about a party in December to a few believing that we were going to tie the knot or do something strange, hence the In and Out.…
I wrote before about European friends of ours who were so taken by the volunteer spirit in America when filming their documentary about Katrina. Today the following came across one of my email groups and it is more evidence of how the average person has not foresaken New Orleans and still wants to help – the only people it seems who have not offered to help are, let’s see, the president, his cabinet, FEMA, the…