For dinner tonight, my daughter and I enjoyed layered bean tortilla soup. The soup base was made with pinto beans, then layered with cheddar cheese for my daughter. I skipped cheese as a vegan.
Last Saturday morning, on October 27, 2018, I shockingly read an email of a breaking tragedy unfolding at the Tree of Life. Some recessed part of my brain recognized the name. It was immediately familiar. Reading further, my memory was confirmed when it was mentioned that it was in Squirrel Hill, my former home during college. Then I looked up the building and it was very familiar visually, from thirty years ago, having gone by it numerous times for four years while living less than a mile away in the neighborhood.
Today is my birthday. I’m turning 50. I wondered if the world would explode today, but so far, it hasn’t.
Improvised vegan taquitos impressed my picky eater kid.
I’ve been trying to move away from processed, pre-made food. I’m also trying to be a more organized working single mom.
Hey Perfection, this week, I’m going to touch my neglected guitar and piano. I might even mess with them and make terrible sounds with them. You can’t stop me. I won’t know what I’m doing. Although knowing that feels terrifying at some level and doing things poorly seems criminal, I might just go ahead and […]
I’ve been stunned since yesterday, seeing the message associated with a LinkedIn invite. I had been ignoring the invite from the woman for possibly weeks, thinking it was another work-related association I would get to later. But then yesterday, I inadvertently saw the message on the invite that I didn’t know was there, with her stating she was your wife and that you had passed. My heart stopped, as I immediately accepted the invite and responded back to her, beginning with “oh my God..”
I Wondered what it would be like to feel butterflies in my stomach over a guy again…
and now I do.
There is nothing wrong with being gay. But marrying someone known to be straight when you are not and don’t make that clear, is wrong.
Underminers are the “Debbie Downers” of the world. Debbie Downer is a popular character from Saturday Night Live who always had something negative to say and found some ways to rain on everyone’s parades about everything. Debbie Downers are the party poopers of the world. Felt good about something and then you shared it with Debbie? Well now you feel stupid and terrible about it.