It’s book fair this week, and due to all the lovely women I’ve coerced into volunteering to help me, I do not even feel my usual high level of despair/ regret/ tension that I usually get prior to the event. I’m having a teensy bit of volunteer fatigue lately, and really, I have no one to […]
I Dreamed A Dream
October 25, 2013 by 8 Comments
“Mom, do you have a dream?” Mark asked over breakfast the other day. I was only on my first cup of coffee so I wondered if he wanted to know what I dreamed about last night. I didn’t want to tell him I had a nightmare about a mouse crawling on the ceiling and then […]
All right STOP. Collaborate and listen.
October 7, 2013 by 14 Comments
My husband just phoned me to see if I was feeling somewhat normal, which I am, thank goodness. When he picked me up at the airport yesterday morning, I was running on four hours of sleep and had been a social butterfly all weekend. What would you do if you were at parties sponsored by […]
This episode brought to you by The Simpsons
October 2, 2013 by 4 Comments
Did you check the traplines? is a question that my husband and I have been asking each other since Saturday, like we’re old-timey settlers trading furs at the Hudson’s Bay Company for blankets and tobacco. Happily for us, the answer has been they are empty which is good for both my mental state and for […]
Parents Just Don’t Understand, or How I Killed The Tooth Fairy
September 26, 2013 by 6 Comments
I’ve been singing in my head wake me up when September ends because this month has been crazy, and here it is, almost over. Of course, I don’t see October slowing down significantly. Wake me up when October ends. I’ve been busy in a silly kind of way, with things that are not terribly important […]
Willie Wonka’s Factory of Near-Death Experiences
June 14, 2013 by 6 Comments
I’ve been having a lovely day, despite of an inauspicious moment this morning when I was getting dressed and wondered what happened to my sweater. I wondered if I had somehow shrunk it, which seemed unlikely since I never put sweaters in the dryer. The usually long, drapey sweater was fitting bizarrely like a crop […]
Life Lessons from the Eighties
June 5, 2013 by 24 Comments
Two things happened in the last couple of days that have got me thinking about aging and hairstyles and beauty in general. First, I was at a reunion on Saturday night with people I went to school with for grades 1-10, and the most popular comment of the night was You haven’t changed a bit! This […]
