November 29, 2011

becoming myself

I must accept there are some relationship "traps" I've been utterly seduced by...

November 27, 2011

900-mile drive

I drove across the older of the US mountain ranges, following my smartphone GPS through the night (both ways) to be with family on Thanksgiving this year.  I usually fly, and when I did drive more regularly, I never went this way -- off the interstates.

November 26, 2011

the baby diaries

Here I am, a 37 year old single woman, educated to a terminal degree, road-traveled to some ridiculous extremes, and living with 2 cats.  Never did I think I would be one of those statistics!  Just like I know now about cancer and dementia in old age, I knew when I was younger about single women who "waited too long" to settle down - it was clearly someone else's problem.