I have this urge that is harder and harder to fight where I walk up to people and touch the middle of their upper back, gently touching that point which makes you want to open out your chest and straighten the spine.
I am horrified by bad posture. All around me I see old women [...]
Fresh out of college, you take a job as a nanny in a foreign country, so you can learn the language while making a little money. You’re living with an American family at the U.S. embassy, taking care of their one-year-old daughter. You spend your free time roaming the streets of the exotic capital city [...]
My dad just had open-heart surgery to replace a poorly functioning valve. He never had any kind of cardiac “event,” just discovered the problem during checkups and follow-up visits to the doctor. This kind of surgery — valve replacement — is deemed “routine,” even though they crack your chest open.
There has been nothing routine about [...]
I have a crush on my physical therapist.
She is all Charlize-Meg-Reese perky with blond curly hair and eyes the color of her pale blue sweater. She is like a favorite second grade teacher who always knew what to say and when to say it and we all vied for front row seats in her classroom. She smiles [...]
Resolved: To take a multivitamin every day, rather than buying those big bottles of them and forgetting to take them until they’re out of date.
Resolved: To get Lasik. Someday.
Resolved: To play my guitar more before the dust swallows it completely and it’s just a giant faux termite hill in the corner of my living [...]