Tag Archives: family
Holidays, in a Nutshell
I had this big, long essay planned about the holidays, but I’m tired, and everyone does big long essays about the holidays, anyway. I have often wondered how many new hits a search for the phrase “my crazy family” yields in the days immediately following Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Anyway:
1. Christmas Eve, we went to the “contemporary” [...]
Work It Out
1. Tonight was my first bit of exercise in over a year that was not in a yoga studio, or outside. Being back in a gym felt fine, although I had conveniently blocked from my memory the inevitable forced tv watching while on cardio equipment. I spent forty-five minutes on an arc trainer*, trying to [...]
Now Now Now
Here is how my day started: intense pain on one side of my head from sleeping with my ear bent into my face, and general ick from a dream that a shot glass came out of my nose (it was encased in lovely crystal, though).
Still, the day was productive. I taught a class, picked up [...]
Thanksgiving Weekend Wrap-Up
Frolic
Most of my frolic was in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, dancing like a doofus around my kitchen while baking. The soundtrack included, but was not limited to: They Might Be Giants, The Beatles, Elvis Costello (which rapidly became too depressing), and The Dead Milkmen. George Carlin had a bit about how no one [...]
Hey, little sister.
My parents separated over nine years ago, a split that I knew would happen from the time I was ten or eleven years old. They have both been in relationships with wonderful people for a few years now, and I consider myself very lucky that things have worked out so well for all of us. [...]
Mortality Revisited
I decided today that I needed a good yogic asskicking, so I drove down to Midtown for Camille’s 4:30 class. The class itself was challenging, but there were some newer students there, so it wasn’t quite the asskicking for which I had been hoping. The asskicking came on the way home. On the ramp between [...]
Frivolousness
I spent this afternoon meandering around Fells Point, after checking out the Baltimore Tattoo Museum. Between the chinese slippers on my feet, Mr. T Experience in the car, and the junk stores, I felt like I was fifteen again, only without the curfew. Rock! The past two days have been completely frivolous, as a wind [...]
My Secret
Part of the inspiration to open my blog to others’ secrets is knowing that I have an enjoyable release for my secrets: I get to work with them through fiction. Not everyone has that joy, so why not share my space?
Some secrets we keep, some secrets keep us. After a few secret-intensive years in my [...]
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Today was Scott’s birthday. In honor of his oldness, I baked a cake.
This is the Phabulous Philadelphia Pumpkin Chocolate ChampionChip Bun(d)t Cake. I made a few tweaks to this recipe since I posted it last October, and it is really just spectacular. There were only five of us tonight, and currently there are two pieces [...]
One Foot in the Past, One Foot in the Future