still with the toe shoes……
“Dad isn’t doing well Chris. I think it might be soon”, I heard Chris’s sister say through the phone. We had just gotten back from a trip to South Africa and both had a particularly bad case of covid. Our first. They are still checking for covid at the hospital, we won’t be able to […]
Breaking news: Fujisan has moved
Why is Chris home at 10am on a work day? 13 years had gone by in a flash. And last year, we decided to start traveling-life was too short for regrets, and we’d had plenty of ups and downs to make it feel “earned”. Chris gave Nicole an unimaginable budget for a shared anniversary trip- […]
Otter Pandemonium
“We can adopt.” Something we’d talked about before. I knew I could love a child that grew inside someone else- I’d done it. Chris had never been sure he could-but he was desperate now to make me smile again. I watched as they poured the concrete for the basement of mom and dad’s in-law suite […]
THE COUNRY BUMPKINS TAKE TOKYO
“Weird to get snow this late in the year. You heading over to shovel Nicole out? I’m thinking she’ll need it done before dark when she gets home from work.” I said to Chris. “Yeah, let’s go.” It had been a long winter that had spilled over into spring. My first winter married- and my […]
toe shoes and stage 4 clingers….
Desiray in her little white junior bridesmaid dress- trying to make her feel how much a part of this she is-I remember her smile as she put it on in the mirror with me -as I put on mine, with my mom and Nicole helping me step in. Codi in his little tiny tux-looking just […]
Planes, trains and deaf brother-in-laws…
“what the crap do you mean you’re not going????” I said to Nicole when she came to wake me up for the golf day. I took very little notice of her red rimmed eyes. “I just….I can’t. Its not a good day. I can’t go. But you have to go Karen. It’s probably the only […]
IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST DOES JAPAN KNOW ABOUT IT FIRST?
“Ever thought about golfing?” Nicole said, while I guzzled from the bottle of strawberry Boones , my second in an hour, and wiped chocolate chip cookie dough icecream and tears from my face. I just had my heart broken. Again. By the same boy. I was 20. And he was going to be my husband- […]
The Cloud Forest.
Waking this morning is hard- mostly because we had to pack small bags to take with us to Machu Picchu- and leave the rest behind. Which is always so much harder than it sounds. I can’t emotionally bare to be away from my art supplies…and they take up more room than my beauty supplies by […]