I somehow forgot that my visiting friend is irresistible to all animals. I guess I didn’t forget that general fact so much as I forgot how often it comes into play. My dog is absolutely in love with her, which was expected, and she got a gorgeous moth to land on her last night as…
Category: friends
17 Again
In 10.5 short hours, my best friend from high school will show up on my doorstep, and I’ll be transported to the mental state of a seventeen year-old. I’m pretty excited about that. It’s not that I want to be excessively giggly or dramatic, which I think we both avoided fairly well for teenage girls. …
Just Dance
A miniature version of the plague hit my house sometime between when I went to sleep on Sunday night and when I woke up on Monday morning, but we’re going to talk about a happier time. A time when the villagers were frolicking in the sun and all anyone could think about was puppies. A…
Passing Notes
This week provided solid proof that some things do get better as you get older. I’ve been sharing notes with friends since way back when. In high school, they were mostly about how great it would be when Integrated Physics and Chemistry was finished for the day and we could just play tennis. Or they…
Quote du Jour
I talked to my high school BFF last night, and this conversational gem came out of her mouth: “If you could combine Mr. Darcy and Batman… [long pause] oh, he’d be the perfect man!” There was a logical, grown-up conversation that led to that sentence, it’s just much more fun out of context. I love…
Small, but valuable. 