No raise now. In December, they’ve promised to “look at” my issues. Let’s look at the other wonderful things that have hit me before 10am on this rainy Friday morning: 1 – Mom called while I was driving to work – she has to have semi-emergency gall bladder surgery this morning. Her condition is not…
Category: Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!
Return from the Land of Barbershop (That’s Singing)
We’re back. I’ve spent the first hour and half of my return to the corporate grind by catching up on emails and blogs and things. Given the jet lag, and the fact that my needy cat kept us up all night (“you leave me alone for a week, I meow for four solid hours while…
Peace Out Yo
We are leaving town next week. It will be a weeklong trip to the West, to visit friends and family. Last year we headed west to visit the absolutely fabulous E, J, and cats in their lovely Montana home. Besides seeing their fun, funky, and brewery-happy college town, we also got to chill (ha-ha) at…
Mini Lilypad – Memorial Day Weekend
The park where we camped with my husband’s family was three hours’ drive into the mountains. We took the fun pickup truck which we rarely drive anymore because of gas prices. Still – how can you not take the pickup camping?? Tent, cooler, sleeping bags tossed in the bed, windows flung open, the wind in…
Snapshots from a Pennsylvania Graduation
· Folding chairs on a green lawn, 65 degrees and sunny, a perfect graduation day. An American flag whips in the wind behind the podium. My sister, who has begun running daily and looks fantastic, grins at us from under her mortarboard. My mother, in a rose colored shirt, beams with all her chicks around…