The Cool Kids
If I have one wish for my daughters, it is that they will find a tribe of girlfriends like the ones I have found. I’m lucky to have a couple of tribes–the GHPers from high school, the Wesleyannes from...
View ArticlePainting Your Elephant
One morning at work when I was feeling particularly beige and suburban, like a…oh, I don’t know, like a beige Suburban, I stomped into Nicole’s office and whined, “My friends have the coolest jobs....
View ArticleNailed It
It’s not really “home” until you hang stuff on the wall, right? I spent a few hours today at my friend’s place, helping her hang stuff on the walls. She’s one of the Cool Kids. It’s been a rough year....
View ArticleTelling Stories
Another reunion weekend at Wesleyan and this one was a Big One. Twenty five years since the class of 1990 graduated. My last year as Alumnae President. I’ve got so many stories to tell but I need time...
View ArticleExperiencing Otherness: My Trip to the Beauty Shop
I have this friend, Kathy, from way back in the 1990s. We met through work. She wrote software manuals and I developed training for the same systems. Kathy and I got to be Friends-friends when she...
View ArticleA Little Patch of Blue Will Do
It’s been raining for a solid month. How do I know? Because the day my dad went to hospice–poured buckets. It rained until the day he died. Then it rained some more but we had a beautiful blue sky day...
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