40something finding my way back to writing.
Alysa Liu won gold for the Olympics and I've been binging her story. What a story! I think people are really loving what she represents because it shows what humans are capable of when we have room to express ourselves. In a world of AI and Trump and
I've been in a serious-reading kick lately. Just finished Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong and am starting on Immortality by Kundera. It takes a certain mood to get Kundera, and I suppose with the season changing and the opportunity to people watch, I'
Fortysomething
My 78 year old mom came to visit, and we dropped by Safeway, today. She loves this store. They don't have Safeways in Texas. She insisted on buying 3 cases of bottled water (40 bottles each case). I grabbed the closest one I found, but those were $6.
Parenting
My daughter muttered, "Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou" on Saturday when I was going over her allowance on Greenlight. Her mom was sitting right there. I think I'm the only person she would curse at. She knew it was bad, because she didn't say it loudly. But she
I think my fondness / obsession with having the right gear mirrors my dad's debilitating anxiety about every situation. The man is so risk averse about everything it's a wonder that he somehow captained a boat to escape Vietnam with our family and 200 other refugees. It&
One constant is that Madeleine is super competitive with me. If I want her to practice piano, run, draw, or do anything that requires effort, she'll muster up the strength if she knows that she's competing against me. After three years of piano, her teacher gave
Fortysomething
I hope in some small way, as we deal with commutes and spouses and kids and putting the dishes in the dishwasher and making sure the forks go with the forks and the spoons go with the spoons that we find the way back to ourselves?
Career
I'm still learning about all of this stuff, but seeing your kid sad because they don't know why they're different than other kids is tough.
Career
In this dream, the photo mode was on portrait, which I didn't want. So I switched it to photo mode and tried to zoom to about 1.2x. But the camera kept zooming into 5x, then 10x. Too close!
Twentysomething
October 2006. YupNo and I wandered around the old walled town of Antalya and stumbled onto a shaded square with a couple of tables and a few women sitting around benches chatting. Let's stop for a coffee, she said. Ok, I said. Wearied legs whimpered their cases and
New York
In Vino: Step away from St. Mark's and all the NYU kids. Move down a couple of blocks and over an avenue and you're on one of the quieter streets in the East Village. Tucked (if you can describe the modest location any other way) on
News & Politics
A couple of things about the VTech media coverage: * Why the focus on the fact that the kid is a 'Korean national'? What does that have to do with it? Was McVeigh a 'US national', was Columbine by 'American nationals'? What, I don'