First things first about Camp Mighty. It’s super weird to see people whose blogs you’ve been reading for years and years sitting in the same hot tub with you. I just typed a whole lot more on that topic but I think that about sums it up. I mean, the Bloggess handed me my registration [...]
I’m thankful, as always, for my family. This year I’m especially thankful for my grandma, the cutest, sweetest little person in the world. I’m extra-down-deep-in-my-bones thankful that I grew up just down the street from her and saw her as much as I wanted to. We baked and biked and gardened together, and had frequent [...]
Say you are, theoretically, at a happy hour with colleagues you don’t know very well. You have had, perhaps, one more drink than you should have. You have already informed the group that, contrary to what they may think, you are actually “98% fun and only 2% [name of your corporate employer.]” You have stated [...]
My office is only 15 minutes away from my apartment. To get there, I take the road through Rock Creek Park, a 1700 acre swath of green that bisects this part of DC. In the summer, I drive slowly where the road is curved and shady, because there are always bicyclists pedaling furiously to get [...]
I have a lot of good things to tell you, blogstars, but let’s start with this. Things I have done so far to prepare for Sandy: Bought extra Diet Coke. And a can of full-sugar soda, in case the end times are truly upon us. Went to a gas station to try to buy bread, [...]
1. Apples. The first time I went apple picking, when I was 11 or so, I was completely blown away by the concept that there is more than one kind of apple, and that they taste different from each other, and different from those nasty, mushy things they sell at the store. I used to [...]
I would pick it all up and shake it, if I could. Even if I still had the same pieces, perhaps they could be re-assembled in a more pleasing pattern. Spread the happy times a bit more thinly, so that they might sweeten the occasional — occasional! — pools of bitterness. I have felt before, [...]
I’ve written about 9/11 here and here. I saw this poem ages ago; just hunted around to find it again. I think it’s beautiful, heartbreaking though it is. Peace to you and yours. PHOTOGRAPH FROM SEPTEMBER 11 They jumped from the burning floors— one, two, a few more, higher, lower. The photograph halted them in [...]
OHIO I ended my vacation in Ohio by searching the internet vainly for a cabin on a creek within 100 miles of DC that I could buy. Two bedrooms, a fireplace, a screened-in porch, a creek a creek a creek. If I could spend weekends at a place like that I think I could be [...]
Two things… One, I depart Friday for a family reunion in Ohio. In cabins. In the woods. With no internet, or even cell phone coverage. I made t-shirts. And hoarded my Xanax. I can’t remember the last time I spent three days in the same domicile as my dad and stepmother…let alone without the internet! [...]
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