Real Housewives
I’ve certainly never thought of myself as “the wife” or even the more neutral “a wife,” but more than one tenant (and the brokers) in the new condo have referred to me as James’ wife […]
Summer, Don’t Let the Door Hit Your Ass on the Way Out
I speculated that the only way I'd be able to escape the babies and all they stand for (it's not really their fault) would be to find a mildly fringey (no, Gowanus and Greenpoint don't […]
The Middle Ages: 42
This is what happens when you're busy working and wait a week to go back to a comment you know previously existed. It disappears. There was a hilarious, didactic response to this comment about how […]
Ravaged, Burned
While I mix business and pleasure, i.e. blogging lightly and obtusely about work-related matters against better judgment, I have one more thing to say. I suspect that a newish high-standards superior is less than impressed […]
Dream Date
I know I have mentioned this probably twice before, maybe more, and dreams are boring (even though I just spoke of them last week) but I'm being messed up by the dream I have every […]
Day Terrors
I read the tl,dr Can You Die From a Nightmare last night even though I'd ignored mentions of this piece earlier in the week. I finally caved based on a Longreads link because I couldn't […]
Earth Shattering
The weekend after I got back from vacation, which was about a month ago, the distant past, James had recorded Another Earth and I didn't feel like watching it because it was too hot in […]
The Hobo Code
It happens all the time. You think of a subject that hasn't crossed your consciousness in ages, and then like that it's being written about. (There's also that thing where you keep seeing a reference […]
The Good Life
As I’ve done for as long as I can remember, but not that long in the scheme of things, I’ll post a year-older photo. Truth be told, I’m not 40 yet in this pic taken […]
Onesies
I'm off to turn 40 where weather.com tells me it will 111 degrees when I land tomorrow. I might die. On the other hand, I'm all about putting meaning into patterns where there isn't any, […]