Posted in Comfort & Control, Depression, Friendship, Living In Community, Soundrack on Apr 18th, 2012 1 Comment »
The other day a friend called me. She was struggling to see light at the end of her tunnel of despair, and I hope I was able to encourage her. We talked as I sat in my car in the Grocery Outlet parking lot because this is the reality of life in community: to go [...]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile on Dec 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
Thanksgiving weekend we took a day trip into the mountains with some friends to chop down a Christmas tree. Mind you, this was no froo froo tree farm with hot cocoa and carolers… this was THE MOUNTAINS. (As we’ve discovered before, when the Zugs do something we go all the way). We bought a $10 [...]
Posted in Depression, Friendship, Learning on May 12th, 2009 10 Comments »
I’d seen Bryan around, but I first noticed him when he officially introduced himself to the group at a staff meeting. He was from southern Colorado, his wife left him, and he came to Seattle trying to make sense of the last six years of his life. I took note. It wasn’t that I reveled [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Friendship on Jul 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in Food & Drink, Friendship on Jun 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
I had dinner last night with a new friend at a new (to me) restaurant in the Big City. I parked my car a block away so as to not completely embarrass her with my well used, dented, unwashed mini van in need of a good decluttering – no sexy single girl wants to be [...]
Posted in Friendship, Seen, Heard, Said on May 24th, 2008 No Comments »
(via email) Her: I got your message and can’t seem to get through on your phone, I keep getting a busy signal. Me: LOL. That busy signal probably means I’m on the phone. Her: Dude, you so old school, i haven’t heard a busy signal since like 1998… ha ha…
Posted in Friendship on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I took a commercial break from life this evening to spend time with two soul sisters who are in town at the same time. Both women have participated in the reality of The Pile that is my life, having rented our spare room at different times over the last four years that we have been [...]
Posted in Friendship, Travel on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I was hoping to have my house put together more than it is, but when you have a friend visiting you FROM AUSTRALIA you’d best concern yourself with ending Pukefest 2007 first. The important thing is that I vacuumed the layers of cracker crumbs out from the between the couch cushions so I don’t look [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Friendship on Nov 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Just checking in because I hate to see posts like this one sit at the top for too long, dragging everyone down. I actually pulled it together this afternoon: I had a good cry over a glass of wine, I had a good cry on the phone with a friend, then I rallied myself to [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Friendship, Fun Pile on Oct 4th, 2007 6 Comments »
Last night about nine or ten gals came over for a Recipe Swap and Menu Planning Party that I hosted. The group was mixed, consisting of friends from all different compartments of my life, including local bloggers. I didn’t really plan to have a format, so everyone just brought their cookbooks and notebooks and index [...]
Posted in Friendship, Seen, Heard, Said on Oct 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Tonight as I pulled into the parking lot at Macy’s I was cat-called by a familiar voice behind me. I turned to discover that my friend and her husband were parked in their Toyota LANDCRUISER* drinking beer and smoking cigarettes like they were living out a scene from The Outsiders. These are the same friends [...]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile, Picture Book on Sep 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
1. Stand on a tall ladder over a treacherous patch of blackberry bushes in order to pick plumbs off the top of the tree 2. Sit around like old ladies, chattering about weddings and babies and the first days of school, while pitting plumbs. 3. More chattering while chop chop chopping. 4. Carry the load [...]
Posted in Friendship on Sep 21st, 2007 7 Comments »
I look forward to my birthday more than I look forward to Christmas, or summer, or the day all my kids are potty trained. Today is a cool, crisp, sunny day, and there is freshness in the air. Summer is gone and I am wearing socks again. New fall fashions abound, and school provides me [...]
Posted in Friendship, Learning, Living In Community, Video on Sep 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
When Ruthie was just two months old, Bryan and I coordinated a babysitting co-op with friends. Every other week we would go on a date and have free babysitting, and on the opposite weeks it would be our turn to babysit. Various families have been a part of this co-op in the past, but for [...]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile on Sep 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
I will not name any names to preserve the integrity of all participants, but several desperate housewives gathered in my basement tonight for a big screen HD viewing of Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveShow on HBO. O-my-ga. The man has some moves. One of my friends came downstairs at one point and said, “There was a huge [...]
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