Category: Friends

Sociable undertakings

Free Advice for You

Molly told me there’s a new OS for my mobile devices and that I might consider updating my phone and iPad. She’s my technology guru, so I always follow her lead. After I did it, I had to reset Siri on my iPad (by saying “Hello, Siri” five times). My iPhone, however, didn’t prompt me to do likewise, so I wondered if Siri were still functioning. To find out, I asked my phone, ”Hey Siri, […]

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Epistles

My latest farmers’ market haul—potatoes, peaches, peanut sauce, pasta, and lots of things that didn’t begin with ‘p”—brought the weight of my backpack to 17.2 pounds, which is a lot when you’re walking half a mile and the pack is funky. I don’t know what on Earth possessed me to buy, at considerable expense, a pound of freshly made stinging nettle raviolis. I’m scared to eat them, having been wounded and traumatized by these same […]

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The Impossible Dream

You have a way of making the mundane interesting, Eleni wrote in response to my latest blog post. Uh, thank you? It’s a generous comment, but I do wish I had more compelling things to explore. Alas. On the subject of generosity: out on my front porch I found a mystery package from a company called “White Mountain.” Inside were two brand-new 500-piece jigsaw puzzles, a surprise from Marianna and Stephen who are forever giving […]

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Friends & Relations

September 12 Eleni and I haven’t been on an adventure together for as long as I can remember—possibly not since she was still wee and living with me. So a few months ago we planned a long-overdue getaway together: just us and infant Ruby. I was afraid I’d have to cancel because of my ongoing mouth crisis, but this morning I loaded my cooler with a million dollars’ worth of food and set off for […]

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