BEST LAID PLANS
BEST LAID PLANS My sleeping patterns have changed greatly since I have been thrust into surgical menopause almost three years ago this March. Where...
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EIGHTEEN LIPSTICKS AND BACKUP
EIGHTEEN LIPSTICKS AND BACKUP There is that moment in time when you slip on a pair of pants or jeans or in my case the perfect Lululemon yoga pants...
Read moreEVERY OTHER MONDAY
EVERY OTHER MONDAY The reminders that I have set on my iphone for the past seven years are like this reliable clockwork I don’t want to ever forget...
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SET IT AND FORGET IT There was a movement over fifteen years ago. It was a rotisserie chicken movement. It was in my old life when my former husban...
Read moreMY LOVE AFFAIR WITH YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Well not really. I mean he has a family, children, I am sure a lovely wife. I am a devout monogamist. So let m...
Read moreI LOVE ANN PATCHETT
I LOVE ANN PATCHETT When I was living in Jamestown, RI in 1976 I had the good fortune of becoming friends with a group of young kids who I mostly s...
Read moreMERRY CHRISTMAS INDEED
There is nothing more glorious then a perfect Sunday, even more so when it is one of those neat near to last Sundays of the year and there is nothi...
Read moreIS THE TARADIDDLE NEVER ENDING?
IS THE TARADIDDLE NEVER ENDING? I am sitting on the couch this early snow filled New England morning, two Saturdays before Christmas and I am wide ...
Read moreWEDNESDAY NIGHTS WITH JANE
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS WITH JANE The last two Wednesday evenings I have somehow managed to carve out some time in this busy holiday season to hang out wi...
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IN THE WRONG BUSINESS I drove up to the parking lot at 10:33am last Saturday morning and there wasn’t a car to be seen; crap, could they not be ope...
Read moreMENOPAUSE, BEDTIME, THE PEE FACTOR AND WILL I EVER SLEEP AGAIN?
MENOPAUSE, BEDTIME, THE PEE FACTOR AND WILL I EVER SLEEP AGAIN? When my Grandmother Kitsie was alive, she used to joke about writing a book about t...
Read moreROMPS AND RECONSTRUCTION
ROMPS AND RECONSTRUCTION No. I am not going to get too deep into my bedroom experiences, I mean my son may be reading this and I don’t want to frea...
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