I’ve heard this in conversation with my friends and other people lately: “it doesn’t feel like a Depression.” Sure times are tight, and budgets are shrinking – but we’re not in breadlines yet, and the streets are not quite thronged with the homeless. Of course the people saying this are the ones who still happen [...]
I don’t know if I’m out of shape, so much as I am the wrong shape. After spending this morning huffing and puffing up 14th Street, quickly surrendering and dismounting only to find my bike suddenly heavy and my lungs short of air – I’ve decided that this particular corporeal mass was just not meant [...]
My sister once described our mother and grandmother as “adventurous wussies.” They both love to travel, but their crippling paranoia induced by the most random of things. But for the most part, this doesn’t keep them from traveling. We younger ladies have our own, uh, quirks. My sister happens to be terrified of driving, even [...]
Ring, ring. “Oh, hi Mom! How are you?” “I’m fine, at work right now. How you doing.” “Good, I – ” “Are you going anywhere spring break?” “No, mom, I know we talked about me visiting you in Houston but I have a lot of work to do over break.” “Don’t go to Mexico! It [...]
