“I like it,” said Evie. “Me too,” said Jack because Jack always says me too no matter what Evie says… for now. Internal eye roll from me. My whole being was crying out, “I can’t stand this ****,” but I slapped a smile on my face and tried to fake cool confidence. “Great! Wow! What…
Evie to me, “Why do people keep wanting to take my picture?” Me, “No idea. Maybe they like oddball looking people around here. ” Eye roll, tongue out. You’ll thank me someday, Evie. When it was time to leave Lisa and Joe in Bangkok, things got real local real fast. To be clear, this is…
Scott and I got to go on a fairly rare date night. I always make sure I have my passport ready and a spare set of socks. These sort of nights have a life of their own. Always Be Prepared. We started out with a quick bite to eat at Gritty’s pub (good beer), then…
A few weeks ago Scott said, “Listen, I love the blog and I love reading what you write. But… you might want to lay off your Mom stories just a bit. It’s funny to us, but people might think too much is… I don’t know… not nice.” Huh. Ok. While she did offer to be…
Sitting in the car, heading into town the other day, out of the blue Mom says to me, “You can use me as your foil… if you want to.” Having not personally visited the 1920s, it took me a minute to figure out what ‘foil’ meant in that context. Me to Mom {very serious}, “First,…
