Between my parents, I never imagined that it would be my mother who would first make the generational jump and join Facebook. This is the woman so utterly defeated by email that I didn’t think she’d recover. Last Christmas, I bought her a shiny new (well, new to her) iMac and tried to train her [...]
Woke up early, whether due to jet lag, or maybe my body has become accustomed to sleeping in cramped seats on planes, trains, taxis, subways – and isn’t able to fall asleep that well on such a soft, luxuriously pillowy king-sized mattress (a surprise and extremely generous gift from our roommate while E and I [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, pretty soon E and I are going to be hopping the pond (that other one, filled with tsunamis and shit) to visit Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Though we’ve both kind of vaguely wanted to go on an Asia trip before this – even so far as considering teaching [...]
My mom called me up last week and immediately asked if I could fly to Houston, offering to comp the plane ticket. She mentioned the word “surgery” and I immediately went into panic overdrive, “ahh! on what?!” She said it was nothing serious, but that it had something to do with her throat? I remained [...]
