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 […]
Posted in Everyday, Friendship, Comfort & Control 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 […]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile, Food & Drink 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 […]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said, Friendship 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 […]
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 […]
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 streak of […]
Posted in Friendship, Picture Book on Aug 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Posted in Friendship, On Writing on Jul 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I was invited by my friend Julie to attend a writer’s workshop tonight on Bainbridge Island (put on by Field’s End), where I enjoyed a taste of small town quaintness. We packed into a little room in the library - where suspendered old men shuffled noisily about the room as they refilled their coffee […]
Posted in Friendship on May 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
This weekend Bryan and I participated in a training conference that brought together people we hadn’t seen in years, and I was able to catch up with friends from back in The Day. My weekend was full of deep, rich, fifteen-minute catch-up conversations.
What struck me the most was the vivid transformation of so […]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile on Mar 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
My girlfriend, Sarah, has been coming over on the Monday nights that Bryan is out of town, and we scrapbook together. When Ruthie was a baby I made scrapbook pages throughout her whole first year, and filled a second scrapbook of other family fun stuff. But by the time Thomas came along I […]
Posted in Friendship, Food & Drink on Jan 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
Last night Larah and I went to The Paragon in downtown San Jose, a sleek lounge with clean lines and simple design. Their specialty is their extensive vodka bar, and I tried their Chocolate Martini which contained vanilla vodka and dutch chocolate creme. It was a yummy, smooth drink, but a bit sweet for […]
Posted in Friendship, Travel on Jan 28th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the things I was looking forward to while staying in the San Jose area is seeing a few friends who live here. When Bryan’s contract here began a year ago we knew that one day he would bring us with him on a trip, and the kids and I would have some […]