She’s Back, For Now.

A while back, I wrote a letter to my grandmother who had been living in a nursing home for the past two and a half years. About a week ago, we got the wonderful news that one of my aunts took my grandmother out of the nursing home and moved her into my aunt’s place [...]

Excuse me while I go make a sandwich

Every time I talk to my best friend, Tina, I always ask her about her day. And this is how our conversation goes. Me: How was your day? Tina: Eh. Tina: What about you? Me: Well you know, every day is Saturday in my world. Tina: little chuckle, which sounds like she wants to kick me [...]

Just A Heads Up

On the phone with my cousin who lives in San Diego: Wait, hold on. I’m gonna have to ask you to hold on. I’m braking on the highway. It doesn’t make any sense. Has anyone told you about the California traffic? You’ll know when you get here that drivers in Southern California suck. And it [...]

Fruit Man, We Miss You

Yesterday, The Boss and I celebrated our Nine Monthaversary. Well, maybe “celebrate” isn’t the right word. We exchanged our monthaversary wishes through text message and then he called from a buddy’s phone later in the evening (his phone should be fixed by tomorrow) and told me that we might have to push my move to [...]

This is what happens when you eat shrimp crackers before bed

I came home the other morning and found this in the driveway: And I was all, “Hell Yeah! I love Raisin Bran!” because it reminds me of when my grandmother, Mimmi, used to live with us and that was like, the only cereal she ever ate. I reached for the bag, naturally assuming there was [...]

Christian Dior Pro Cheeks Blush

My sister used to go to medical school in the Caribbean, and before I went to visit her in late 2007, I bought this blush by Christian Dior in “Limelight.” I was looking for something really natural that wouldn’t cake up in the hot weather, and this stuff was perfect to achieve that dewy glow [...]

I Can’t Hear You, My Finger is Broken

When I was little, my next door neighbor and I made a telephone with two plastic cups and a long piece of string stolen borrowed from a spool of thread belonging to my mom. And it didn’t work at all worked beautifully. (Actually, we couldn’t hear each other at all so we’d yell at the [...]

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