How to Handle a Fishy Friendship

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 [...]

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A Tale of Two Gardens

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 [...]

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Small Town Nervous Breakdown

 
 
 
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, [...]

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One is the Loneliest Number

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 [...]

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