“We’re made for each other.” Really? I think this saying is supposed to be romantic, but it doesn’t feel meaningful or desirable to me. I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum–if you feel this saying represents your relationship or is something you aspire to, who am I to be snarky about that? But to me…

Our dog, StanLee, did something silly and cute yesterday and I immediately thought, “Oh, I can message my sister, Jenn, about this–she’ll enjoy this little StanLee story.”  But I can’t message Jenn because she died on April 22, a little over a year after she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Jenn was sixty-three years old,…

Parchment paper was thwarting my efforts to achieve personal growth.  Or rather, I was thwarted by my failure to successfully procure parchment paper.  I didn’t really know what parchment paper was, but I needed it for the online vision board class I was going to take. Technically, Chad was taking the class–I enrolled him in…

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid to use the toilet if there was lightning.  Luckily, that fear left me years ago, but I remembered it recently because of a connection to “Belles,” the play I was just in. “Belles” is the story of six grown sisters trying to connect via phone…

I spend too much time on my smartphone–just ask StanLee. Time spent using my phone is time  I should be petting him. It’s also time when I’m not terribly productive, or not paying attention to what’s going on around me. Or time when I’m trying to avoid being bored, which sounds good like a good…

Target cashier: Is that a tory?Me: What?Target cashier: Your purseMe: No…I don’t know what that is.Target cashier: They’re expensive.Me (inner monologue): If I was the type of person to be into expensive purses, would I be shopping at Target? And no, this isn’t a “tory” purse but it IS a Doctor Who purse but I…

“Make sense of this.”  I received this directive at the Walker when I recently visited it on my birthday.  Yes! That’s what I wanted to do. That’s what I was trying to do: Make sense of my birthday.  Okay, this command wasn’t given specifically or exclusively to me, and it wasn’t actually about my birthday,…

Every run has its challenges (or at least irritations) but today was the first time my run was interrupted by a fire alarm.  Yes, this was an indoor run on the track at the gym we go to (LifeTime Fitness), and I was only about 10 minutes in, when the fire alarm went off.  Damn. …

“…f*#k we have a box” I love Valentine’s Day. I love sushi*. But combining those things this week sent me into a tizzy.  This is a story about me getting stressed out about getting takeout sushi on Valentine’s Day.  The details of the story aren’t actually all that interesting, but here they are anyway: I…

“You inspire me!” a guy called out as he ran past me on the track at the gym on a recent Sunday afternoon. This was highly unexpected.  I did not feel inspired, much less inspiring, as I was slogging through my tedious run. While I am very grateful to be able to run on an…