I am a cast-iron frying pan. Or maybe a griddle. Like the pan, I perform really well once I’m heated up. You know the rule for pancakes, don’t you? Throw the first batch out — the pan probably wasn’t hot enough. When I begin a new project, especially one that requires a bit of stretching [...]
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It’s January 2. Mr. NYer and I welcomed 2010 with friends and family. And it was time for me to start the goodbyes. It’s been a good holiday season and fun to finish with two good parties. My parents never really celebrated New Year’s Eve. First of all, they weren’t the party-going kind. Mainly, though, it was because [...]
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Mostly I’m blithely optimistic about the upcoming changes. I remind myself occasionally that there will be days where doubts and sadness predominate, but so far there haven’t been many. Today was one of them. Things are moving fast and with certainty. I leave — LEAVE — in just over a month. The house went on [...]
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The summer before my only child, Soon-to-be-Abandoned, went to college, I went into mourning. Stunned by its depth, I struggled to find ways to hold on to my son. Mr. NYer and I cagily planned the perfect summer vacation that year, a five-day rafting trip down the Colorado River in Cataract Canyon, guaranteed to provide [...]
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