We’ll always be loyal and true

I just spent the weekend with the most amazing women.  Women I’ve known pretty much my whole life (with the exception of Leigh, who was Margaret’s best friend from Penn State, but who we’ve known for so long that she’s one of the group.)  Women who know my deepest, darkest secrets and manage to like [...]

A Face from the past…and present

A question from my sister yesterday about how I use Facebook got me thinking.
I guess I’ve been on Facebook for almost a year. I don’t remember when I joined, and I’m not interested enough to go back and look it up.
It’s not what I expected when I joined. It’s more like a series of big [...]

Where have all the neighbors gone?

I’ve always wanted to live on the kind of block my siblings grew up on…the kind of block where everyone knew each other, where there were a ton of kids, and where people threw impromptu parties for the whole block.  I didn’t grow up on that kind of block.  In fact, I grew up in [...]

Acting like a bunch of teenagers

I just came back from a girls’ weekend in PA with seven wonderful college friends.  This is a group that’s really bad at keeping in touch – we usually manage to exchange photo Christmas cards, sometimes with letters – but that’s about it.  The last time they gathered was four years ago, a gathering I [...]