“We’ll get one more.”
I like really good food. I like really good food at really good restaurants. The kind of restaurants with white tablecloths and dim lighting. The kind where the waiters place your napkin for you and come get the crumbs off the table between courses with those cool crumb scoop things. The kind where the menu […]
Pyracantha and ‘Good for Nothing.’
On the west side of the lot in the house where I spent my teenage years, was a huge row of this hedge-type bush called Pyracantha. (Yes, I had to ask my mom what it was called.) The specific kind we had is officially named Teton Firethorn, but our name for it was a little […]
Olly Olly Oxen Nope (the fish follow-up!)
Exactly a year ago, I wrote about a childhood game of hide and seek – and about a belief I wanted to let go of: “I can’t change.” To make it tangible (and a little silly), I gave myself a goal:Learn to like seafood. More specifically: become the kind of person who doesn’t automatically say […]
Frequently Asked Questions.
A couple weeks ago I was sitting in a restaurant next to a woman from Texas and we struck up a conversation about what we ‘do’ for work. We actually had a lot in common. After I answered her, she asked who I help and I gave her my familiar schpeel. She continued to ask […]
Answering back.
When my brother Jack was engaged to his wife some thirty-ish years ago, she remembers that they had a hard time being apart. As such, Jack would sometimes fall asleep at her parents’ house when they were watching TV after a date and get home in the wee hours of the morning. My Dad was […]
Synaptic Pruning.
When I married my handsome, smart, funny, comforting, hard-working husband, my dog Scout and I moved into his house, 2 counties away. It was NOT a hard decision to marry him. Obviously. It was, however, very hard to decide which of our houses to sell. I loved my house, my neighborhood, my church community, my […]
