Josh was late for school because I forgot to get gas last night after choir practice. I didn’t get gas before choir because I was already late for that. The car holds 18 gallons. I put in 17.972 gallons. So basically, we started the day running on fumes. I’m not feeling like Super Mom today. […]
If you were to grab a remote and somehow channel-surf through my brain right now, this is what you would see: Click: A highway out West, deserted except for the tumbleweed that blows past the camera, maybe a buzzard circling in the sky. Click: A front yard of a house. It’s night, and you’re basically […]
The darkest nights I’ve ever spent have been in a car, late at night, on a cold, lonely stretch of deserted highway. Years ago, when my husband, Mark, was a resident at Johns Hopkins, we always spent Christmas with my family in South Carolina. Mark didn’t get much time off, so we usually left at […]
Still Weird at the Grocery Store I haven’t written much lately about my morning trips to the grocery store, but I just want to check in and say that it’s still as weird as ever out there. Today I dropped Josh off at school and popped by my customary grocery store, a quirky place we […]
I’m a mature adult, with important responsibilities and a certain amount of dignity… until Andy Gibb comes on my 70s lite rock Pandora station singing “Everlasting Love.” All of a sudden, I’m back in junior high, when he was a huge heartthrob. OMG! “We killed the pain, we blew away the memories of the tears […]
When my aunt developed dementia after a stroke, she had to move to a nursing home. We asked what possessions she could take along to remind her of home, and were surprised by the answer: Not much. It turns out that clutter tends to make people with dementia agitated. It’s stressful for them. What I […]
I made a Pandora station called Skyrim Soundtrack. It’s all music from video games, and I love it. I made another Pandora station called John Williams film scores. It’s got other stuff I love, especially Howard Shore’s music from all of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, and tunes by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, […]