I hadnt seen him in years, more than 15 I think. I loved him once, with that desperation only a 17 year old can muster. He was difficult and strange and melancholy. And gentle though a rage seethed just below his carefully controlled surface. I know we took long walks. …
I am SO EXCITED we’re having a party in two weeks!! Even if our house is so beige it makes me clench my buttocks together in embarrassment. We just can’t wait to do this until it’s all painted, that will take YEARS. Ok, about a year anyway. But a party!! …
I’m really excited for the Bean to start to school tomorrow and so is she. When we told her she was going to a new school, she jumped up and down, did a little dance and yelled “yippee a new school.” It’s all she’s been able to talk about since …
just a weird side note. After 14 years of living in San Francisco, it still feels weird when I tell folks here “we’re the first left after the Graveyard off Mission.” The two Missions crash into each other in my head. Took Bean for her first real Graveyard ramble last …
Warning: runon sentence because it helps to get across how I feel right now: So we’re at the new members of the Unitarian pot luck party tonite. We’re having this wonderful conversation about business/economic ethics vs personal ethics and enron/tyco that sort of thing, also second careers and being parents …
is what is is supposed to be like. A WONDERFUL party. For all the libras at my friend Laura’s house. And kids abounding and dogs and food and talk. And everyone is home by 11. And I even got a birthday present. If I get any happier I’ll explode. Oh …
I have to enthuse for a bit. It’s been an up and down feeling lately. All that build up and work then suddenly only the unpacking left. Don’t get me wrong, that’s actually fun and stuff, but we’ve been at a fever pitch of stress since about August 1st, if …