Posts Tagged as ‘boston’

August 5, 2008

Haterade Tastes Great

DC is a town people love to hate.  This isn’t terribly surprising condering DC is a town built on opinions and the ongoing struggle to figure out whose opinion is more important than everryone else’s. (Mine, of course.)
DC is transient.  It’s not a real city.  The Metro is terrible.  Who ever heard of taxis being [...]

May 22, 2008

Campers & Naps

I used to go to a summer camp in Colchester, Vermont where I was at first a camper and then a counselor. I remember when I was a counselor that there was a girl there who was really sweet. She was from Boca Raton. She was outgoing. She was young and [...]

May 15, 2008

Kids & Airplanes

The idea of being a mom is a lovely thought. Watching your child (or children) grow up. Their first word. Their first step. Their cute baby fuzz that passes for hair on the top of their head. Onesies with boats and ducks on them. Becoming a parent is one [...]

May 15, 2008

The Day Liz Was Born

My parents divorced when I was two years old, and a few months before my 14th birthday, I was sent to live with my father as my mother was deemed unfit. From the age of 14 on, I counted down the days until I could go away to college. I wanted an escape. [...]

May 14, 2008

In Memoriam

It’s been almost a year since the demise of my last relationship. His admission of “I just can’t do this anymore” came two months too late, as we’d spent those months in a destructive stalemate, while he “tried to figure out” whether he wanted to stay with me or not.
He was older. Not [...]