I have a variety of little points of business to share with you all: Farewell to the Public Side of The Junky's WifeMy blogging BFF and soulmate The Junky's Wife has, unfortunately, had to take her blog private due to some nasty cyber-harassment. She will continue writing, but you will only be able to read [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2007’
Night 4/Day 5: Coming Home
"When the night has comeAnd the land is darkAnd the moon is the only light we'll see,No, I won't be afraid.No, I won't be afraidJust as long as you stand,Stand by me."~Ben E King, "Stand By Me"I was looking forward to the ride to the airport with my friend Pat to end my trip. I [...]
Day 4: Ellen
I started my fourth, and (theoretically) final, day with my friend Ellen and her family. I wanted to blog about Ellen before I left, but I couldn't seem to focus, or even come up with a suitable pseudonym for her. (The pseudonym game is getting difficult: finding names that are not too close to the [...]
Day 3/Night 3: Reunion
The third day of my trip was the day of my 20th Reunion. I was nervous before I got there. What do you say to people you haven't seen in twenty years about all that's been gone on since then, especially when the things most on my mind aren't things I can share? But for [...]
Night 1/Day 2: My Old High School Girls
After painstakingly laying out all of my plans -- every ride, every meal, every night's housing -- and putting them together in a spreadsheet (because I'm a perfectionist like that), all those structures, carefully built to ease my anxiety, began to crumble. The night before I boarded my plane last week, I got a call [...]
Day 1: Seeing Jess
I think the only words I want to say about my entire trip are words of profound gratitude and love. But they need to come at the end of my trip, and besides, I am too tired to do the writing justice now. Enjoy the pictures (each worth 1000 words) in the meantime... Jess smoking [...]
My Plane Flight Out
Check it out! My Courageous Blogger Award took a ride on the airplane with me. Here we are setting off last week on our trip. And we're way up high. I had sweaty palms the entire flight, but we made it (and without resorting to alcohol either). I took Shawn's recommendation and read The Sisterhood [...]
I Was Home. I Am Home Again.
I know I am back a little later than promised, but I am safely back. Unfortunately, I may have to extend my blogging hiatus by another day or two. Please wait patiently while I recover, and I promise I will regale you with tales of reunions, old friends, good food, unbelievable gratitude, stomach viruses and [...]
I’m Off! (And Asking for Book Recs)
Ok, I'm done whining about the big scary plane ride. I've done my yoga and meditation. I've packed my bags (one for clothes, one for books). A friend has given me a whole pack of placebo anxiety pills (Tic Tacs). I have my Courageous Blogger Award. I've got my iPod. I'm ready to go to [...]
Stupid Dreams
Last night I was up late, making my pre-travel to do list and to-doing some of it. I answered e-mail and saw a picture of a friend, now so pregnant that I did not recognize her at first in the photo. I made arrangements to see another friend (Missy), meet her husband, who (my mother [...]
