Tag: relationships
group name: pastafarians
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April 15, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
We try to ignore it as we go about the humdrum routines of our daily life, those routines that help us feel all is comfortingly "normal". But suddenly (even if we know it's coming, when it . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
My birthday. The 40th year of my life. Picasso's birthday too, same day, different year. I look at the number and it seems impossible. How could I have gotten that old already? I used to think 40 was . . .
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March 25, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Home School Digest is a widely published magazine designed to help parents who have taken on this demanding challenge of educating their own children 24 hours a day. The magazine is filled with anecdotal . . .
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December 13, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
The green glass ball was the size of a very large grapefruit. It was an odd, sort of warm shade of green with hints of gold and surprisingly heavy, which implies a certain robust quality that may help . . .
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April 06, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Who among us has not been touched by cancer? It seems to be one of those things that is so intimately a part of being human that it is everywhere, all the time. In order to function, we need to either . . .
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June 01, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago I got an email invitation for a May 31st memorial tribute that was going to be held at the Boston University School of Fine Arts for Harold Tovish, a sculptor and former Professor . . .
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April 15, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Last night was the first night in a week that RG and I did not go running. There was no time, I had to get ready for my date with Bill. For the past 15 years he's been the head Art Director at a major . . .
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May 07, 2007 07:17 PM EDT --
I'm writing this on the "T" to Central Square to meet RG. We're going to Rise's for dinner. It is a first. She hadn't even given him her new address until last night when she . . .
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May 19, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
I spoke to Robin this evening. It's the first time I've heard his voice since that "unpleasant" experience about 2 weeks ago. He had no clear point in mind when he called. It was just . . .
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May 27, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
It's always been tough for me to admit I need help, to ask anybody for anything, but this financial bind I got myself into, trying to keep my daughter in the Newton school system, has me in a panic. . . .
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June 04, 2007 11:09 AM EDT --
Last night, cold rain, RG and I went running around 10 p.m. If someone had told me two years ago that on a cold, rainy night in November 1985 I'd be wearing a pair of NIKE'S, running three miles . . .
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June 15, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
He called me at the office. It was late on Friday and I knew he held out till the last minute, hoping I'd call him instead. I didn't so he felt compelled. When you've engaged in a love affair . . .
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July 12, 2007 07:55 AM EDT --
Since RG's been away I've spent more time than usual on the phone. Our circle of friends, our own dysfunctional family, seem to press even closer to me in his absence, as though responding to some . . .
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May 03, 2007 07:32 AM EDT --
One year ago this month I went to Friedrichshof for the first time and nothing has been the same ever since.
RG and I in bed last night. A difficult time. He's strange with me, distant, cold. I feel . . .
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June 02, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
Steven, the 23 year old I met at Carol and Barbara's Halloween party called me at work today to ask me to a party on Saturday night. He said there would be a lot of architects there from the Boston . . .
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June 03, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
Somehow it seemed perfect. Immodest, RG used that word to describe me last night. It fit like a glove.
We had dinner at Rise's. RG calculated that about 26 people had been invited, casually, granted . . .
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July 15, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Got a notice in today's mail from the high school. My daughter is failing gym because she comes in unprepared. I wonder if her cavalier attutude towards school has anything to do with her counting . . .
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October 20, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
The large pink envelope arrived in today's mail. I knew it was a birthday card from my mother. It is part of the ritual, these small gestures that she has always done, her way of showing affection. . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
you can't take the country out of the boy. I'm not sure where that platitude came from but my buddy, RG, and I often joke about this concept as it applies to him and our relationship. He, having . . .
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January 14, 2007 12:00 PM EST --
Cruising through the pages today and looking in on the political discussions we participate in holding strongly to our opinions trying to make a change to the chaos of the world, I am left thinking that . . .
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