Grande Pumpkin Spice Latte

Early-morning text message to Kyle:
If you’re going to stop for caffeine, could you get me something?  Whatever you get, with skim milk.
When he arrived in class he hands me a white cup with a green logo.  “This isn’t skim.  You need it.  All that running and stuff.”
Crap.  I never get anything other than non-fat.  [...]

living in the moment/the not quite yet

This street is full of people who had a passion and decided to do something about it.  It is full of small business started by people who love what they sell–shoes, their personally designed clothing, coffee, pizza, stylists, bulk tea, cooking classes, custom framing, art work, obscure books, wine, “designer” flowers, an Irish pint, and–best [...]

Happy Tuesday!

Poland, place of rest

I’ve been asked to comment on my travels abroad. So here it is. Sorry for the delay Mr. Parkinson.
First of all, why Poland?
Well, my friend Elizabeth had been suggesting I come visit her in Paris for a number of months. But as the year went on time and money began to dwindle [...]

Mary, I’m so glad I’m Thine.

Last Thursday Sandy and I (and all our faithful friends) managed to move our belongings into a new apartment.  We’re still getting used the the space (and continue to unpack…me more than her) and find the abode to be endlessly quirky but somehow quite wonderful.  This morning I studied and ate a scone on the [...]

Here’s to you

I knew he was coming. I’d never actually met him. Dan had told me he’d show up at my door while Dan was in Spain for the weekend. Sure enough, in the middle of the week Dave (LargeDave, actually. We call him this because he is quite tall) knocks on the [...]

oldhat

Sometimes when I drink coffee post-4pm I wake up in the middle of the night.  And by middle of the night I mean 4am…which makes no sense.  Tonight is one of those nights.  The experience was accompanied by a bloody nose, the reorganization of my AIM buddy list, the sound of rain, editing of my [...]

“So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self”

Another long night at the reference desk tonight, and being that my favorite local cafe closes at 4, I had to stop at Starbucks for a bit of java to compliment the shift.
“I’ll have a medium cafe au lait with skim, please.”
They must have known I don’t stop there often because I was given a [...]

Continuing on

Here’s something they didn’t tell you:
Graduate school is hard.
The work is hard, yes. The schedule is different, of course. You actually get to study what you want to study now, right? I suppose. But it is more than that. Graduate school is hard because you are caught in this interem [...]

We have a lot of good ideas (yet again).

We weren’t invited.  But we didn’t care.  Your porch is our home, too.