Another sign from the universe….speaking to me via this picture on the front page of today’s New York Times. Those are goats, eating garbage in Cairo. (You can read that story here.) MY story started at BlogHer this summer, when I met a woman named Margaret, who writes a funny blog called Nanny Goats in Panties. […]
Coincidence? Or sign from the universe?
I’m convinced this stuff happens to me way more than normal. Here’s the latest. I always had a secret fantasy to sing and play tambourine in a rock band. I’d been harboring this secret for decades….till I confessed in a post 2 days ago. And then today I see this…. She has to be even older than […]
Impossible
It felt impossible…..from the moment we were woken up by a frantic call from a friend whose daughter worked at the World Trade Center. Impossible….. to see the unthinkable happen, watching the towers disappear. Impossible….to imagine the heroism and courage of NY firefighters. Impossible…to let my kids out of my sight and send them to school. Impossible….that Alli’s American […]
Bears watching
About a month ago I was in Aspen—raving about how great the food was. Well, it turns out I’m not the only one who noticed how well you can eat there. Maybe you saw this story I just read —about how the bears are coming down from the mountains into town, scrounging around for food. This one […]
fire season
It seems to start earlier and get worse every year, one of the things you get used to when you live out here: California is on fire again. When the kids were little, we lived in a canyon in Los Angeles. One day while I was watching the kids play, I idly looked out the […]
the exit row
I’m on a plane writing this. I used to love flying and then when I became a mother I suddenly became terrified to fly alone in case of a crash leaving my kids motherless. So for the first 8 years I had kids, I never got on a plane without them. Once I got […]
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