Day # 11, 544: Happy Thanksgivnukkah, y’all! I trust you are either elbow-deep in a turkey’s innards (or a jiggly tofurkey, if you’re an herbivore like me) or pulling out your menorah and frying up some sweet potato latkes. Or both! In between all that holiday prepping, I hope you have a moment or two […]
Y’all may have noticed that I’ve been a horrid blogger as of late. Yeah. I’ll own that one. Why the ridiculously late responses to comments and full weeks between posts? I’ve been a-travelin,’ of course! (A-travelin,’ as in I just completed my 9th cross-country flight in 6 weeks. NINTH. My meds are working overtime.) The […]
**I just bought a ticket back to California to visit with friends & family (yay!) and thought it was time for another post on the places I consider to be my ‘hometowns.’ Consider it an impromptu and slightly disorganized mini-series. ;) ** ‘Home’ is such a loaded word. It has at once vague and incredibly specific […]
Day #11,260: As of today, Mr. M and I have been partners-in-crime for 15 years and exactly half of our lives. Well, technically as of yesterday… but a day-before-Valentine’s-Day anniversary is both redundant and expensive, so we long ago decided to create the franken-holiday known as “Valentinesversary.” Our first date was almost our last. I […]
For all my bravado about leading a wild & unbridled life, I am a girl who craves order and resolution. Which is precisely why I’ve been enticed into this mesmerizing My 2012 in Pictures Trend that was (key word: was) circulating. I know… I’m so late to the party. Bringing-appetizers-to-the-party-after-guests-have-either-left-or-passed-out-on-the-lawn Late. But I just can’t […]
Day #11,185-6: Because family and traveling are a few of my favorite things (Maria aimed a bit low with cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudel), Mr. M & I spent the last bit of 2012 in Portugal with his brother B, our soon-to-be sister-in-law L.P., Mr. M’s cousin Bash, and Bash’s girlfriend Jess. By the time Mr. […]
A friend recently got Mr. M & me Disneyland tickets at a super-discounted rate. So super-discounted that I snapped them up and didn’t think twice about when we might possibly have a free day together in Southern California. As it so happened, Thanksgiving weekend provided the perfect excuse. Day #11,174: As obnoxious as it sounds, […]
One of the many, many advantages of being with Mr. M since we were both fifteen is that I’ve not only grown up with him, but I’ve grown up with his family, as well. While they were alive, his grandparents were like my grandparents; when I was taking a summer school class nearby, I visited […]
My younger sister S is one of my Absolute Most Favorite People of All Time Anywhere. We used to share a room growing up, and when we’d inevitably fight over you-stole-my-this or stop-looking-at-my-that, our mother would come into our room, hands on her hips, and say: “Girls. You are SO lucky to have your best […]
Day #11, 018: I spent Father’s Day remembering one of the finest people I’ve ever known: my dad. Before he passed away five and a half years ago, my dad was one of my very best friends. I was head-over-heels for him from the very start. In my preschool/kindergarden days, my favorite movie was Disney’s […]