A colleague of mine is having lady troubles. He has a friend who he thought was just a friend, but this lady has been acting somewhat amorously. He went to a party; when he left, she was very affectionate. She’s asked him to do a couple of date-like activities, like swing dancing. Now, to me,…
When we went hair product shopping, we walked past the lipsticks. I said I’d never managed to find a red lipstick I could keep a straight face in, which my friend took as a sign: it’s time to try. It’s 2016, you know? The times, they are a-changin’. Which is perhaps the wrong phrase to…
Years ago, Barack Obama cracked a joke that’s stayed with me. He said something like: “we all need somebody who keeps us hungry and humble – Michelle does that for me.” I think about this often, the qualities of being hungry and humble, particularly after I’ve suffered some humiliation. Yesterday morning, it snowed. On my walk to…
We are four episodes in to Making a Murderer, and I am: Sad that I have a job so I can’t stay up all night watching it Enjoying how good the documentary filmmakers who made this are at their jobs Wondering if I should have been a criminal lawyer (To be fair, the legal career…
Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’ve “let myself go” a bit. I’ll catch my reflection and notice that my shirt is covered with dog hair, or that my hair is straggly – and not in a cute, beach-y way, but in a messy, “I’ve given up, life!” way. Part of this is the holidays: the…
The other night, my sister said something I liked. We’d been talking about someone’s divorce (I know, I know). The split, like all splits, is sad: at one point, the couple was in love. But we weren’t surprised: at the end, it didn’t seem like the couple enjoyed spending time together. So we talked about…
At last night’s happy hour, I took a punch to the gut. We’re currently staying at a cabin close to my extended family. M, my sisters and I are in one cabin, and two other branches of my extended family are in other cabins down the road. We’d all assembled for pre-dinner drinks and hors…
The past couple of weeks has been busy for us, not just in terms of holiday commitments, but with work and other life stresses. We put an offer on a home, so we had a whack of paperwork to do. It’s been non-stop! Last year, M was injured, and the year before, I was away…
I follow some news sites, the ones with cool photography archives, on Instagram. The other day, I noticed this comment under one of the New York Times’s posts: The one from “farmers_kitchen” – not the one like: “Oh woah”, or the heart emoticon. I’m looking at the one that says “Lupus can be stopped with…
At times, while watching Cartel Land, M and I looked at each other like: “This is crazy! Is this real?” Of course, sadly, it is. It follows two vigilante groups as they fight against Mexican drug cartels: one group, the Autodefensas, in Mexico; the other, the Arizona Border Recon, in Arizona. I’ve seen the film…
