The Second Shift is Still Mine
Since the pandemic hit, I have been working from home a whole lot more. Well, no. What’s new is me working from home, full stop. Before Covid-19 stopped the world in its tracks, I worked from one of my firm’s 4 offices for every single day of the working...
Dear Diary…not a lot happened, actually
On Friday night, admittedly a few cocktails down, I clambered (gracelessly, with much grumbling) into our dusty overstuffed attic on a quest to find an old photograph I could picture in my head and that I just knew I must have kept. I didn’t find it. What I did unearth, however,...
Four Decades
Forty. It has happened. I can’t quite believe I’m this…old. (I know it’s not actually old). Nevertheless, here I am. I’ve had four whole decades of living inside my own head, which — I won’t lie — is quite an exhausting place to be, at times. Here are ten...
Here’s a thing
And that thing is a list of things I am currently, brattishly, really sad about. It’s v. selfish and uncool to be sad about these things during a worldwide pandemic, and most of the time I do try to count my blessings a bit, but right now it’s Friday...
Don’t look back on an affair
Considering that we were residents of a relatively small community, it proved surprisingly easy to avoid X. For almost a full year after I ended our affair, I did not see him in person once. Obviously, I assiduously avoided anywhere I thought I might see him, which helped, but...