It’s never good when my posts are named for Police songs that are 15 years old. And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not run in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. ~Milan Kundera, The [...]
Sun cried in the middle of the night. We called her to our bed and all three of us went back to sleep. A few hours later, I awoke with Sun in my arms. There was peace. And I thought, “what was that bothering me yesterday?” Then I remembered. And the obligation of guilt kicked [...]
With this recession going on, and what we me gardening and all, oh, and having a terrible two on our hands, we decided to STOP eating out. We’ve cut eating out down by about 90%. Seriously. I’ve been cooking a lot more, and so has my husband. We’ve been so thrifty! I even lost a [...]
As I was driving to work yesterday, I was tuned to WTIX and heard an old Chicago song (I can’t now for the life of me recall which song it was). Then I switched to NPR and heard Garrison Keallor read this poem by Michael Blumenthal. And in the span of that six or seven [...]
Summer’s over. How do I know? I am returning to my “normal” work schedule. Since returning from maternity leave 2+ years ago, I’ve worked in the office Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week. For the summer, we started Sun in official daycare twice a week–Tuesdays and Thursdays, the days I usually watched her. So [...]
In my career There are stops and goes As so decided by learned judges. And so it goes in my unopposed practice I get few stops and lots of goes. But the stops Leave their marks on me Not unlike the purpling of my sprained ankle. The stops leave me feeling as though I am [...]
There is this. This that is larger than any sole practitioner’s office. The tales, the legacies, the advices recalled with a chuckle and a shudder: “Old Man Sawyer used to say to me, ‘If you are gonna drink at lunch, make it gin martinis. Let people know you are drunk and not an idiot.’” 0 [...]
Last night, I barely slept a wink. A family member was due to have a serious surgery today and I was worried sick about it. This morning, that surgery was postponed. This wasn’t the worst of the news this day held for me. As I got off the elevator in my office, our receptionist asked [...]
I am a whiny sick person. I have a low tolerance for pain and, with a young child, a high propensity for getting sick these days. This time I have a cold. No fever, no chills. And I still missed a day of work because there was so much congestion sitting in my sinuses I [...]
We have all done things that we realize (maybe immediately, maybe with the benefit of time) was a critical error. Things we would give anything to be given a do-over. When these errors are in our professional life, they can be devastating. We have all made mistakes, me included. Plural. Mistakes. Some big, some bigger. [...]