We’re in New York with family, and it’s safe to say even though it’s not home, it still feels like it. The tots adore all the new adoration and activities, the voices and coos singing through the house, the unfamiliar…
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beloved
September 27, 2007
I don’t choose these things. They just happen. I didn’t mean to choose Natalie Merchant’s “Beloved Wife” as the song I’ll always associate with you. It just happened. Perhaps it’s not the most manly-man song out there, but it’s a…
QA with a QT
September 17, 2007
You know, you happen to be right. I vent all over this thing, and then forget to follow up. So bring on the questions. I will attempt to answer them in a timely fashion (though if the Moose writing is…
dear dad
March 28, 2007
I just dropped you and Carol off at the airport. We hugged. Your eyes welled with tears, red. “I love you so much,” I said. I want so much for you to be with them all the time, every Sunday,…
toasts
March 25, 2007
I used to get offended when at an intimate moment, between lovers, over appetizers and wine, mine would toast with "cheers." I guess I wanted it to be an opportunity for more to be said. Some turn of phrase that…
i love you, but go away
November 9, 2006
From my diary: I feel anxious today. I failed my one-hour glucose test the other day and was forced to take a three-hour one, where they drew blood four times. Mom said the same thing happened to her. “It runs…
you can make this easy, or you can make this hard
July 17, 2006
Yes there’s the seat up bullshit. The fact that he sleeps in the same shorts every night. The bit where he looks at me funny if I leave my flip-flops anywhere but the closet. But I gotta say, living with…
obsession
February 23, 2006
It happened with Theo on The Cosby Show; he never followed through with his projects. Guitar, tennis, skiing lessons, then there was the time where he just had to have the designer shirt. Denise made him a lopsided one, but…










November 21, 2007
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