The summer is winding down and I can’t wait for it to end. I’ve been working lawyer’s hours and am utterly exhausted. The cool of the fall won’t bring much relief thanks to the continuing baby boom, though it sounds like the hospital will finally give way and agree to pay us a little more [...]
What a week! I heard intriguing, unsolicited news, went to the newest hot spot in University City (they don’t call me the unofficial MC for nothing), booked the long-awaited trip to Turkey, cashed in on last week’s interminable work hours, heard the most horrifying OR True Story ever, caught an unsolicited glimpse of the other [...]
It nearly went to the wire and I had to forgo Greece, but after weeks (no months!) of stressing out the scheduling staff and waiting for the green light, I finally got it. I spent this past weekend, reviewing all my research and trying to imagine myself in all the different tours. Since Turkey is [...]
Univision played this after the last match and I wished as I watched it that I could keep it because it was the best, most fitting ending to the best thing in sports. Finally, someone posted it on YouTube. Too bad the still is of the Dutch John Barrymore.
I’m in the wrong state for Handcart Days but they were celebrated all throughout my childhood by the people around us. It was like Christmas in the summer. It took me years after I left there to stop thinking of July 24th as a holiday. Years. And we weren’t even Mormons. We were just the [...]
I hate myself when I haven’t had coffee. I went to me monthly writer’s club today and could only stay for the first hour and half. There wasn’t anywhere in the entire place (we meet at a mall’s cafeteria) where I could get an iced coffee so I took off. Not only had I not [...]
When I heard the sound of water dripping, I thought it was the sink. My kitchen faucet is old and disgusting and it drips a drop here and there. It’s audible when I’ve been too lazy to wash the dishes from dinner that night. That’s what I thought it was. But then I looked up [...]
I had been working what seemed to be endlessly for three weeks. The first weekend I had been on call, been called, worked for what amounted to be an extra day, and spent the other agonzing about a possible repeat. Call is torture, so much so that I find it impossible to believe how people [...]
I need to get out of here. I’ve been meaning to for ages. I can’t make it until June. I’m leaving town the weekend of the 14th and it’s not a moment too soon. One thing I learned through the process of finding a city, a flight, a place to stay. So-called “deals” aren’t really [...]
Sometimes I wonder if I just grew up in a weird place, but I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. I will be hosting a Spring Fling this coming weekend and have had some things pop up that I thought were common knowledge. It’s inspired me to write down what I [...]
Yesterday, I was at the market getting new spring produce since I’m tired of eating sweet potatoes and kale. Excited with the coming season, I had picked up some ramps and strawberries and spring onions. I was hunched over the mushroom basket taking my pick of the newest morels. I only wanted a few, for [...]
I haven’t had a proper vacation since last October. I’ve had a few days away from work but they went to things like a brief trip home for the holidays and then I spent my birthday weekend babysitting my mother. I need to get away. Thanks to staffing constraints, getting out from underneath at work [...]