Posted in Tips for Getting Around, tagged Friends, Insommnia, Life, neighbors, nervous breakdown, Personal, Small Town on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A small town is a bad place to have a nervous breakdown. I know this firsthand. Two years ago I was working part-time as a consultant for a firm that marketed causes I didn’t believe in. The more I learned about the causes, the slimier I felt. Every day when I went in to work, [...]
Posted in Traveling with Children, tagged Family, Humor, Life, Love, Pets on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My daughter, Caroline, has a new pet stick. Denied any real pets in our house, she now takes inanimate objects under her wing to nurture and to love. This week, it’s a big stick. Her benevolence is adorable as she cuddles her orphan stick broken off cruelly from the mother tree and left alone in the [...]
Posted in The Townspeople, tagged Life, Starbucks, Barista, Small Town, Humor, Humanity, Dorothy Hamill on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There’s this woman who works at our Starbucks that I call the White Woman. Not because she’s the only white woman – “J.Crew-ville” couldn’t be any more lily white. But because in a coffee shop that seems to only employ hip, sullen, young folk; she stands out glaringly. She’s middle-aged, suburban and looks like someone’s [...]
Posted in Tips for Getting Around, tagged Chicago, Friends, Humor, Life, Loneliness, Seminars on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You know how when you are lonely, you feel like the only one in the world who is lonely…which only adds to your loneliness? You are not alone. This is a true story:
When I was living in Chicago, I went through a very lonely period. My post- college friends were all leaving the city to be nearer to [...]
Posted in The Townspeople, tagged Grocery Store, Humor, Kindness, Obituary, Small Town on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
When you live in a small town, everyday people can begin to seem sort of folk hero-ish. Locally famous because we all know who they are – we don’t call acknowledge them as celebs or treat them as such. Then one day one of them dies and you find yourself in a strange state of [...]
Posted in Introduction, tagged Debut, Humor, Mayberry, Small Town on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Helloooo! This is my first posting.
Welcome to my take on the small things that happen in my small town. I know it’s a little cliche, all this small stuff (of which I never sweat, of course), but it’s all about perspective, right? Besides, if I can’t have some fun jabbering about life in Mayberry, then I’m heading [...]
