https://ilovetheupperwestside.com/a-brilliant-performance-on-77th-and-broadway/ First of all, I miss my city. I'm tired of staying inside all the time. I'm afraid it's going to be like this forever. I wish I hadn't injured my foot in February because I could have kept walking every day and held my agoraphobia in check, but now I've fallen out of practice …
Category: Thoughts
Back in the Doghouse Again
This morning I cut my husband's hair. Mind you, this was not my idea. I had not been telling him he needed a haircut. His job does not require him to show his face on Zoom calls. I can count the number of times he has ventured as far as the building lobby or the …
Tolerance
In the fall of 2016, I left a job I had held for over 30 years. There were a number of reasons, but a big one was the election. After Trump won, a lot of people were in shock. Someone told me that they had called HR to say that one of their employees had …
Finally!
When I was in 7th grade, I used to spend hours with a blow dryer and a curling iron trying to get my hair to do the perfect feathered curl that one of the popular girls at school achieved - seemingly effortlessly - every day. I'd wash my hair, condition it, blow it dry, and …
Seemingly Meaningless Actions
My brother in law does this thing that makes me crazy. Whenever we go to a show - not that I go to shows much, but he loves it and it becomes a family thing - he makes a big deal of the fact that, back in the Reagan years, I was a college drama …