I’m having company for New Year’s (please pray for me, that I’ll be able to stay awake until at least 12:15 a.m. Jan. 1 – it could be embarrassing to fall asleep watching an ancient, post-stroke Dick Clark radiating vim and vigor on live TV, putting me to shame). My friend Janet and her husband […]
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Christmas is So Yesterday
I’m always a little bit sad when Christmas is over. One minute all those tacky red and green sparkly decorations look so heartwarming, and the sounds of any Joe off the street singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” makes you tear up and put rare gold coins in the Salvation Army bell ringer’s pot, […]
My Mother-in-Law Is Coming Today
My mother-in-law comes today and I could not be more excited. People think I’m being sarcastic when I say, “My mother-in-law is coming and I’m really excited.” No matter how much feeling I put into the sentence, they think I’m being over-the-top smart-alecky. I told that to someone recently and they said, “Tsk. Diane, that’s […]
A Run-In With the Doctor
I knew this would happen. I saw the doctor who gave me my colonoscopy on the bleachers at a high school soccer game. I had just been telling someone that I haven’t lived here long enough to run into people I know in the store or around town. I’m still new and unfriendly enough that […]
Charting a New Course
My obsession with keeping track of things has come to a ridiculous head. More like the multi-headed black lab in the Harry Potter movie, all snarly and foaming at the mouth. I’m doing Christmas cards today. I put it off as long as I could, first grabbing onto the excuse that I didn’t want to […]
A Christmas Letter I’d Like to See
Dear Family, Fiends, and Those of You Who Ended up on My List for Whatever Reason, Can you believe Christmas is finally here? I’ve been waiting for what seems like eons for it to finally arrive. This year has just crawled. As I get older time just goes slower and slower. I got out my […]