Getting It Wrong

March 20, 2012

I think a lot lately about what I put “out there.” Annie takes everything literally. If we say we’re going to do something, we have to do it. There is no tricking her anymore. If I say I’m mad at her, I have to also act mad (that means no giggling at exaggerated pouts). I [...]

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I Get By With A Little Help

March 19, 2012

On New Year’s Day, my friend Brianne sent an email to our group of friends that expressed her hope that we could have a yearly girls’ trip. We all replied in the affirmative, with possible location ideas that would be fun for late summer. We needed babies to get older, pregnancies to get farther along, jobs to [...]

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Run And Hit

March 15, 2012

There are three ways into our neighborhood, and two of those routes have schools on them. There is always some kind of elaborate pick up/drop off system being executed, and I always get caught in it. Without fail. Annie is going to walk to school every day just so I don’t have to deal with school [...]

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The Impossible Dream

March 14, 2012

I am moving, moving, moving. Five days here, three days there, six days somewhere else. It certainly wasn’t the intended effect, but all this travel has kept me from going to the one place I really want to go: inside my head. I’m a tired insomniac who is depressed and grieving. It’s the time of [...]

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This Year’s Model

March 12, 2012

My friend Ciaran recently put on an event for the opening of Bel-Bambini, a new children’s store in Newport Beach, and asked if Annie would participate in what was to be the day’s highlight – a children’s fashion show! Since Annie is a little fashionista, and since  I love fashion shows about as much as Kelly [...]

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I Left My Heart

March 6, 2012

I had a good trip to San Francisco. Jackie has an apartment in a great part of the city…this is the view from her corner: I looked at it every two hours, when I had to move my car. I hate your stupid parking, San Francisco. We we very chill the majority of the time. [...]

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