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Ninety Days
It's a singular experience, living somewhere where almost every person you meet is on vacation ( Read more... ) -
Must...Not...Well, Maybe Just Five More
Guilty for: Systematically consuming nearly an entire bag of coconut-filled Hershey's kisses. Instead of going to the gym. Hmm.
Now wondering: If these are marketed during Passover for my fellow sweet-toothed macaroon-obsessed-and-deprived non-yeast-eaters. They wrap them in blue foil and everything....
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To Refrain from the Ineffectual
The first time I met Baseball Tom's mother, I was struck by the similarities of their smiles. It was the sixteenth of June, 2007 - funny how dates stick in our minds, sometimes - but it was the day of my first game at Fenway, and the last day of my relationship with he-that-had-been My-Very-Own-Horsey-Man, and so I remember. She dropped Tom off and ( Read more... ) -
Lyndon
I was four when I first encountered Lyndon's freckles. They were spectacular - unlike any freckles I had ever seen - light brown and perfectly round, all the same size, distributed across his nose and cheeks like they had just fallen from the sky and stuck there.
He and his parents were American, but they had been living in Brazil when he was born. ( Read more... ) -
Flash Poll
Should I agree to play for Clark's production of Bat Boy (opening night: Friday) so that they can fire their musical director? -
Facebook Wisdom
Quote of the Day:
"The only way to rise up is to a challenge - ease correlates positively with developmental stagnation."
-The random box of Anders Ohman's Facebook profile
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That's One Way To Pick Up A Lady
Quote of the Day:
He (meeting me in the Bistro): "Oh, good, it's you! You're never going to believe this, but I saw this girl at one of the booths, and from behind her hair looked sort of like yours when you blow dry it and she was studying and you said you were studying...so, I kissed her...and then I was like, 'Oh, um, you're not my girlfriend,' ( Read more... ) -
Because These Are The Questions That Keep Me Up At Night
Why is thirteen considered an unlucky number? It's a baker's dozen! There's nothing unlucky about winding up with one more crumpet than one has bargained for. -
By Popular Request
I smelled fall for the first time this year early on Wednesday morning.
It seems incredible that the summer is over already: this summer, which was supposed to demonstrate my worldly independence, but instead left me feeling as though I'd taken the wrong approach and should have joined a summer camp or a sorority. I learned a lot, about plague and ( Read more... ) -
Ben
Any chronicle of the men in my life begins, necessarily, with Ben.
Our mothers have told the story so many times that it feels like memory, and maybe somewhere in my brain there are fragments of the day we met: something about sunlight streaming through the windows of the preschool classroom comes to mind whenever I hear or retell it. In any case, ( Read more... )