My fish was dying – again. This would make it my third fish to die in two weeks. I grabbed the fish bowl and my coat, ran out and hailed a cab. With icky, fishy water sloshing all over my lap, I directed the cab to the Old Town Aquarium. I ran in the dark store panicking as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Friends’
How to Handle a Fishy Friendship
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fish, Friends, Humor, Life, Personal on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Tale of Two Gardens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cancer, Family, Friends, Gardening, Life, Perennials, Personal on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When we first moved here, I didn’t know what a Hosta was. My new neighbor, Karen, told me. That first spring, still stunned by the loss of my career, I looked out at my new yard and felt helpless and stupid. I was lonely, bored and completely overwhelmed with all the little green shoots popping up, taunting [...]
Small Town Nervous Breakdown
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Friends, Insommnia, Life, neighbors, nervous breakdown, Personal, Small Town on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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, [...]
One is the Loneliest Number
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chicago, Friends, Humor, Life, Loneliness, Seminars on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When I was living in Chicago, I went through a lonely period. All of my good friends had left the city to settle down elsewhere. I was working at this small ad agency that was going out of business. Almost everyone had been laid-off, so I didn’t even have cool co-workers to hang out with. [...]
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