I fantasize sometimes about a plastic-free house. Don’t get me wrong: I love my technology. There are a lot of little machines in my house, machines that help me do my job, machines that store unfathomable amounts of information and music and give me the capability to connect with the world in ways unimaginable two [...]
…on New Year’s Day, yes. It wasn’t quiet last night, when my husband and close gal pal and I rang in the New Year at the Warfield, at the Dresden Dolls show, and they gave us U2′s classic just after midnight. At roughly that time, a few rows behind us, two more friends were getting [...]
A year ago, I was sitting right where I am now—at my table, laptop in front of me, and I was working on my master’s thesis. It was a semester later than I’d thought I would be, but fall term seemed right for it, ultimately. A harvesting, right? A reaping of what I had sown. [...]
Last night, while out to dinner with friends, I got several phone calls in a row from numbers I didn’t recognize. I practiced my good manners and waited until after we finished our meal to check them out. Well, the messages turned out to be about what hospital my husband had been taken to by [...]
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