BeTwinned

[Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered]

  • Just a year ago

    I just re-read the e-mail I sent to myself and to my husband the night before I had surgery for breast cancer.  My surgery was exactly a year ago tomorrow. After writing and sending that e-mail, I remember sending it off and then going to bed.  In the morning I had to wake up quite…

  • Ahhh, Maine

    Last year around this time, I was finishing up chemotherapy and trying to think of ways to explain to my children that soon, I’d be going to the hospital for surgery.  Practically everyone I knew was going on some sort of lovely vacation.  But we weren’t going anywhere, of course. I tried not to feel…

  • Embrace it or get rid of it

    We successfully arrived in our new neighborhood.  It looks like a toy bomb went off in here, but otherwise we are having a really good time so far. Until I have time to write a longer post, here’s the short version: lots of neighborhood kids, family visits, firefly catching, running around in bare feet, splashing…

  • This is one big country

    I was thinking this today as we continued to drive across it. After manic packing all last week, the moving truck came on Friday.  It was a long day for us, especially for my husband, who packed absolutely non-stop the whole time the movers were moving. We had gone to bed the night before, exhausted,…

  • OK, now *that’s* disgusting

    Short post here, but I just had to take a minute in the midst of packing hell to share this. There is a new tenant in our building, and she seems to be, uh, a troubled sort. Late at night, she brings home drunken men, and there have been a number of scenes in the…

  • The long goodbye

    We are living in a pure chaos of stacked boxes, errands, goodbyes to friends … it’s frantic.  It’s happy, sad, heart-wrenching, exhausting.  I’ve been trying really hard to face the goodbyes head-on, and in the process, I realize what a rich life we’ve had here in Southern California for 12 years.   Though this is…