the beauty of more than two days off

It’s amazing how having four days off allows you to do the things you want to do. Typically weekends are so rushed with packing in coffees with friends you don’t get to see enough and making appearances at parties and running errands to replace burned out light bulbs and paper towel, they’re often not relaxing.
Yesterday, [...]

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key bridge

I don’t think I could ever tire of walking over the Key Bridge from Rosslyn to Georgetown in the early evening when it’s 50 degrees and the city is quiet during the holiday. A red light blinks in the Washington Monument to the right. The lights from the warehouse office buildings on Canal Street flicker [...]

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church

I went to 5 p.m. Episcopal mass last night at Christ Church Cranbrook, less than a mile from my parent’s house in the suburbs of Detroit. It was the first time I’ve been to a service in more than three years.
The stone church on the private high school’s campus, stunning with its extraordinary high ceilings [...]

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flint family gathering

I saw my dad’s family last night for the first time, many of them, in 12 years. The five of us (my mom, dad, brother and sister-in-law) piled into my dad’s Pontiac and drove about an hour from the suburbs of Detroit to my aunt Nora’s house in Owosso, Mich. Along the way, we passed [...]

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my newest addiction

I think I’m addicted. During the day, it’s on my mind. When I come home, it’s the first thing I check. I spend large chunks of time on it.
I’m talking about virtual scrabble on Facebook. That’s right. Scrabble. I started playing about two weeks ago, and I was playing with one friend in Michigan. We [...]

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the joy of being a woman

Sometimes, a woman’s physiology baffles me. Without giving away too much detail, directly before that cyclical time, I get a burst of energy. Tonight, I was giddy when I walked home from work. I couldn’t wait to run with S. and catch up. I scarfed down a Cliff bar, put on my Brooks running shoes [...]

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ghost and jam

My roommate N. is laughing at herself. She wears a blanket on her head. One evening about a week ago, I looked up and she had the brown blanket draped over her head and stood up and said “woooooo” like a ghost. I pretended to be startled by how odd it was, but was secretly [...]

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laugh aloud

I had a laugh aloud moment today.
My friend A., who is an attorney in New York, wants me to meet her friend B. from Indiana law school. I met A. in June at a wedding shower, and we clicked. A. writes fiction, went on a vacation by herself to Spain, she’s down-to-earth cool — and [...]

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virginia party

S. and I met at 9:15 Saturday night to go on an adventure to a holiday party way off yonder in Virginia. We popped the cork off a small bottle of champagne in the cab and exchanged sips as we drove past the Lincoln Monument over the bridge to the highway to Arlington. On the [...]

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saturday morning

One of my favorite things is to get up on a Saturday morning, and go to the kitchen to boil a thick rich espresso and heat up some milk. I toast a garlic bagel and spread it with butter and cream cheese and top it with salted tomatoes and capers. I stand barefoot in my [...]

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