For weeks and months I lay in bed at night trying to imagine what Life would be like in Cali (oh! see how I’ve picked up the local lingo?!) I pictured hours at my writing desk alone—David working long days at his first new job apart from each other in 25 years—with a mixture […]
Month: August 2015
Can I go home now?
You know when you’re on Day 7 or 10 of vacation, the thrill of the hotel room worn off, a little too much sun and fun, just wanting your morning bowl of cheerios with a banana (instead of yet another buffet) and yearning for your bed, your pillow, your stuff, instead of the rabbit hutch […]
Val’s Book Launch
How honored I am to say I know the amazing Val Brelinski, and how thrilled to have been at her official Book Launch last night at Book Passage in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Just the woman/mentor for any ennui-filled soul: generous, lovely and relentlessly supportive. Though she writes autobiographically about her devout […]
Constant Clutter, OY!
Moving is all about finding new places to put your sh*t. And those places might not yet exist if you sell most of your furniture but not all the contents thereof. Am I really so locked into “everything in it’s place”-Donna Reed-middle-aged-menopausal-rigidity??? Instead of a panic attack that spurred me to solutions, the […]
Gail Ansel 