Last night I went to a town meeting, and then a bunch of people went out for drinks afterward. We went to a Mexican restaurant, and I had completely forgotten that it was Cinco de Mayo (so if you saw pictures on Facebook of moms serving little Cinco de Mayo lunches to their kids and felt […]
getting older
The Senior Citizen Contract
Somewhere along life’s path something happens. There is an invisible line that you cross. A switch that gets flipped. And you inevitably go from semi-cool parent to really-cranky-old-person-who-forgets-the-first-seventy-five-years-of-your-life. I’m really hoping I manage to avoid crossing this line. But I know how I am now. I can’t remember what day it is most of the time. […]
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
When I was little I always wanted crutches. I would see injured people hobbling around on those things and watch them enviously. My brother and I even went as far as jumping out of a tree in the backyard in an effort to break a leg so we could get some. It never worked, thank […]
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~ Caryn Leschen
My parents were in the same kindergarten class. Can you imagine? They started dating when they were 14, and they were married by 20. You don’t see that happen too often anymore. Or ever. So when they were 24, I entered the picture. When I was a freshman in college, my parents were 41. The […]