Rainy Days and Mondays

They weren’t supposed to leave until tomorrow, but that Mom o’ mine is like a horse.  No, she doesn’t have disturbingly large nostrils and front teeth…much.  Once she smells the barn there’s just no keeping her away.

Also, I may or may not have worn them the fuck out.  Mom’s seventy year old knees do not take [...]

Carolina Wedding (Part Two)

Back in the reception hall, I looked for my date.  Instead I found Gwen crying like a little bitch and leaking mascara onto her chin.  I don’t know why I was surprised.  Last time we went to a movie the poor thing started weeping during a preview for a Miley Cyrus movie.  I took her sobbing [...]

Reflections

For a supposed environmentally conscious gal, I get a ridiculous number of magazines.  I feel a bizarre mix of guilt and pressure when I see the pile of unread periodicals accumulating next to my sofa.  Sure, I could blame it all on Rocco’s inability to read the New Yorker with any sort of consistency, but I [...]

Math is Hard, Barbie

I reached over and introduced myself to the new guy at the table. “Hi, I’m Elly…Thom’s sister,” I said as I stood to extend my hand across the table. My eyes traveled upwards for what seemed like an eternity.  Saying nothing, he loomed over me like a giant Asian Frankenstein.  He shook my hand and sat [...]

Torn

Crack Rock

Oh Interwebz, I’m all in a tizzy.  Today is a big day…a huge day…a momentous day!  Yes folks, at midnight tonight, New Moon is playing just two blocks away from me at the Hoboken Clearview Cinema.  Now the question is, am I nerd enough to go?  I have a reputation to maintain, you know.  [...]

Home

Yesterday I awoke to the cacophonous thunder of honking. Rolling, relentless peals ripped me from my surprisingly sweet and nostalgic dreams. While my mornings usually start with the bleating of horns bouncing off the buildings that line Fourteenth Street, I was not in Hoboken – I was home in Virginia. I opened my [...]

Ithaca

I’m not sure how it happened exactly, but somehow the whole weekend focused on my crotch.  How many people say that after spending a weekend with their brothers?

Thom and I got in late enough Friday night that we didn’t tackle anything terribly ambitious.  Drew had already been in Ithaca a week exploring every nook and cranny [...]

Out of Practice

I’m getting soft.  Three weeks of traveling through the Midwest and down to Virginia has buffed off my city shell.  My inner, unsuspecting, small town, southern gal is rearing her nasty, pig-tailed head.

It’s sort of like when you spend the whole summer walking around in flip flops, then spend a few weeks coddling your feet in [...]

This Is A Recording

While I was home in Virginia (for a whopping 18 hours) Dad offered me his old digital voice recorder that he hasn’t used in years.  How fantastic is that?  Yeah, I know!  I was pretty damn giddy, too.  I nearly careened off the road quite a few times on the trip down trying to jot down [...]

Lucy

Dynamic Duo

I think there must be something wrong in the cat-o-sphere.  It all started about two weeks ago when Simone fell to pieces and suffered a wicked UTI because her weak little kidneys and murmuring heart are starting to run out of steam.  A week later, Gwen’s cat Sebastian had a heart attack.  Now this [...]

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