Cute W and I have had some of our biggest, hardest laughing jags since my diagnosis. Beginning almost immediately after the diagnosis, in fact. We frequently make each other laugh, and it’s not unusual for our outbursts to be loud enough to turn heads, but we were teetering on the edge of a panicked hilarity … [Read more…]
This last almost-month has been a lot. It’s been a huge sequence of events, which I am (as usual) inclined to overshare about, but I am also not at my most productive right now, and I know that some of this will be brand-new news to some of you. So I’m going to give you … [Read more…]
So, it turns out that not only is my embroidery class running, but it will have 9 students! I’d capped it at 10, so that’s almost too many! We’ll see how it goes. On Saturday, I decided that I needed to buy some more needles, and the easiest source nearby is Walmart. It was so … [Read more…]
I’ve been doing yoga on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Proctors, and I typically bike the same route: I head to Central Park, go up Monument Hill Road and past Central Park Middle School, then down Bradley Street to Brandywine, where I take a left and go a block or two to enter Vale Cemetery and … [Read more…]
On Saturday, we had a date night planned (dinner and Josh Johnson at the Palace), and Cute W proposed that we leave a little early to see the new Costco. “On a Saturday…?” I said doubtfully. I have the work-from-homer’s spoiled aversion to doing any major errands on a weekend. Give me the serenity of … [Read more…]
I’m trying something new. You may recall that I like to embroider, and sometimes people are like, “You could sell that!” and the truth is? No. For a couple of reasons. The first and most philosophical reason is that I find it vaguely distasteful that our immediate instinct when seeing someone’s artsy hobby is to … [Read more…]
It is a Saturday afternoon and the weather is perfect. I have the muscular weariness from a morning workout that makes me feel Virtuous all day. We had a family video call and both daughters are excellent (M had just returned from yet another trip to NYC to visit her girlfriend and was meeting up … [Read more…]
When I am walking or biking around, I feel like I’m in one of two modes. The first I might call “Tra-la-la” and the second is Ragey. This morning, lucky for me and everyone around me, I was in my more typical Tra-la-la mode. This mode involves me singing, out loud, extremely random songs. I … [Read more…]
It doesn’t even seem vaguely possible that summer is coming to a close already. At my last yoga class, it seemed like every student was in denial when our teacher reminded us that our next class would be in September. The summer camp kids have cleared out of the JCC. And suddenly it’s not quite … [Read more…]
Cute W and I spent the weekend in Portland for Guster on the Ocean. We are longtime fans of Guster (you may recall that we saw them at the Tulip Festival and a babysitter flaked on us for a concert years ago, which I am still bitter about). But even though this music festival has … [Read more…]
