The Big Payback
Well maybe it’s not the big payback. A better title might be – paying it backwards.I have been given the […]
Friendship
Come together, right now (why wait?)
I almost never host cookouts because I don’t have the outdoor furnishings to accommodate more than my husband and I, […]
friends, fun, funerals, fear – a seesaw week
My life last week during this most enjoyable Boston summer was brimming with events that ran the spectrum of emotional […]
Watching you, watching me
Couples tend to watch each other: he watches my food intake, I watch his drinking. Watching…noticing personal habits, foibles, tendencies and […]
Coinkidink (Coincidence & Connection)
I heard from three people on Monday, April 26, that I hadn’t heard from in a while. The coinkidink (coincidence) […]
It Ain’t All About You – Communication Issues with Friends
It Ain’t All About You – Communication Issues with Friends My friendships with a couple of long-term friends are in […]
A Diamond in Dorchester
I met a young girl waiting on the bus in Dorchester to go to Fields Corner. (Some mornings I do […]
Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are: Friends Lost Along ...
Today I’ve been thinking about friends I’ve lost.Some have passed on and “I’ll meet them on the other shore,” as […]
You’re not my effin friend
I I got caught up in the madness and excited when the first day I signed up on Facebook I […]
I Saw You See Me
I saw you see me and try to act like you didn’t.I could have ignored you, too, and at another […]
I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends*
It has been my great privilege/blessing/luck to have benefited, recently, from assistance from a number of friends. I want to…I […]
Love you but not absorbing your pain
How do you keep from absorbing the pain of your loved ones? If your mate is ”having a terrible, horrible, […]
Mr. Poetry Man
He’s “the poetry man, you make things alright.” sings Phoebe Snow in her song from 1989, One of my favorite […]
I didn’t know because you didn’t tell me
I didn’t know that really I didn’t. You never told me. I never asked. I never thought of asking. I’m […]
The Holiday season has now officially ended
The holidays officially ended for me today because I finally took all the Christmas, New Year and Kwanzaa cards down. […]
Dump truck or Dump?
I try to limit the number of trips I make with my dump truck to the dumps (i.e., ears) of […]
All Goodbye Ain’t Gone
All goodbye ain’t gone. Sometimes this is a good thing, a thing you hope for, that the person who is […]
Where You Been?!
Where you been? OK, I’ll correct my grammar for the grummerians out there (I know it’s grammarians). Where have you […]