Yesterday, while I was showing my apartment to one of the very last roommate prospects, my cell phone rang. It was my sister. I sent her to voice mail, since I was in the middle of trying to paint myself as a caring and responsive potential roommate and so it just didn’t seem like [...]
Five minutes ago, my cell phone started playing the ring assigned to my parents’ landline. I pulled myself out of my work haze and answered. My mom’s voice sounded more excited and full of laughter than is normal for a random mid-day call and so I asked, “Hey mama, what’s up?”
“I just talked [...]
I woke up today to rainy skies and the knowledge that this was my last day with my sister. Neither reality made me very happy. Raina was still asleep when I got out of bed, and so I went into wake her up, knowing that she needed to be at the Unitarian church [...]
I almost made my sister miss her gig tonight in Mullica Hill, NJ. Heading over to Jersey, exiting off the Ben Franklin Bridge, I got over-confident, and sent us off on a wild ride. We got to the coffeehouse with five minutes to spare, but only after I spent half an hour torturing [...]
Having my sister in town has been wonderful. It’s also been chaotic, distracting and destructive to my regularly scheduled program (in the best way possible). I hate that she has to leave on Sunday, although I am looking forward to getting my living room back. The picture above is how it’s looking [...]
At about 4 pm today I sent an email to my sister that I’ve never sent before. It said,
“What do you want to have for dinner tonight?”
My sister and I have never lived in the same city as adults. We’ve never stood around each other’s kitchens on a week night, or shared an [...]
“Have you passed the sports complex yet?”
“Yeah, just now.”
“Okay, have you seen a sign for Target?
“We just passed it! How did you know?”
“Hey girlie, I know I-95 better than I should.”
“Do I have to be in the very far left lane?”
“Yeah, follow signs to 676 east into Center City and get off at the [...]
I didn’t get myself together to put up a Random Friday Ten today, believe it or not, I actually had work to do at work and couldn’t find time to blog. With only ten minutes left of the day, I’m going to forgo it this week. But I wanted to post an exciting [...]
My sister was born on February 3rd, 1982. Several weeks before she was born, my two and a half year old self suggested to my very pregnant mom that we paint the baby’s room black, despite the fact that there was no baby’s room, just the room that I would share with the impending [...]
The City of Angels has been both very good and very bad to my sister this week. In the very good department was her show at the Clairmont Colleges. She has some friends down there, and they brought a nice sized crowd out to hear Raina. On the very bad side was [...]
