Archive for April, 2011
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
My mother would have been 80 today
You have to understand: my mother wasn’t the sort of person you could imagine ever turning eighty years old. She was blond and beautiful and so sure she’d always be young–and she was so disappointed as each sign of aging came to her: the arthritis, the wrinkles, the thinning hair, the watery eyes. I mean, [...]
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
When a cell phone leaves home…
All my inanimate objects are ganging up on me again.
At this moment I have no idea where I put the GPS, the external hard drive to my computer, my favorite pair of sunglasses, my blue hoodie, the leggings I bought in New York three months ago, the spare toothbrush heads I just got for our [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in inanimate objects,phones by sandi
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
What is standing between me and insanity
Hello! I have decided to crawl out of my cave, blow the dust off this blog, and try to get back to normal.
It’s part of my spring effort, you see.
After having survived a winter here in New England that involved such new concepts as “roof rakes” and “thundersnow,” I’m afraid we are all a little [...]
