Archives for “real life”
It’s been a long time. It’s almost at the point where so much has happened that I’ll forget most of it unless I record it somehow. So here you go: 1. Reader, I married him. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to write that sentence. So unsentimental as to be the most romantic [...]
This, this right here, is why I will never, in my entire life, ever again try to work in an office-based setting. But also, things have happened that I’m still figuring out how to write down with enough love and respect, things that are hard though not outside the order of the universe. Easter Sunday [...]
While recovering my equilibrium after traumatic events,* I tend to find it helpful to covet things. I mean objects, beautiful consumery gadgety objects. I fantasize about the ways in which they’ll make my life easier, funner, let me do new things… Not that I need said new objects. But that’s really not the point of [...]
Rain makes me tired. One thing I love about living in the city is that the concentration of people make you think about interesting things is really high. I recently came up with a plan for a small business I want to start. It seems like a workable idea though it also means I’m going [...]
I’ve been away a long time. Not physically, just internet-ly. But perhaps it’s time to return. I won’t make firm promises about writing every day or even every week. But I’ll try to keep things current about the most important stuff. So… here’s the gist. Early last October we moved to Manhattan, through a stroke [...]
Things are changing. We live here now, since a little over a week ago: I love Manhattan.
I shan’t be going to Blogher this year after all. Why? Well. A has to travel for work then and I’d have to take Z with me. Which would be fairly expensive. And right now, we suddenly need to hoard all our cash and then some because something so awesome I can’t quite believe it [...]
Two icons I grew up with died today: Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. They were both too young to leave us.
If medical bills underly 60% of bankruptcies, then how much of all debt, including outstanding debt that hasn’t yet crippled anyone, is due to medical expenses? The figure comes from a Harvard Law School/Harvard Medical School/Ohio University report (via HuffPo), which also found that Nationally, a quarter of firms cancel coverage immediately when an employee [...]
It’s in the air: worry. For some of us, it’s about our children. This is new territory for me, and one that keeps it coming with the surprises because my capacity to imagine ever more creatively bad things happening to my child is, apparently, staggering. Which is only funny because I don’t usually sit around [...]
My father is visiting. Last night, over dinner, he said: perhaps time isn’t continuous. We measure it by recurring events – the sun’s rotation, the seasons changing; time only exists when something happens, its passage is only known to us by recurring events – the rotation of the earth or seasons changing. But between those [...]
Baby Z understands the word ‘lamp’. In Hungarian, for starters. (What that means? That I’ve been pointing out lamps to her very diligently of late. And now she points them out to me when I ask, where’s the lamp? Something about sources of light is recognizable even to infants, apparently.) Going from no words or [...]
All day I kept thinking: in their shoes, I’d fear for my life too. Except there’s a difference: I hope I would not have accepted money I didn’t need for work I’d done that resulted in wrecking the entire world. Oh, there’s an even bigger difference: I doubt I’d ever have been hired by a [...]
This blog is kind of repetitive these days. But it’s my blog and anyway, that is how life is at the moment. I want some record of how each day is about solving a shifty array of small and/or recurring and/or persistent challenges. Because while I’ll have tons of photos and minimovies to recall smiles, [...]
The Oscars this year? Rather satisfying, weren’t they? Appropriately cabaret-like: loved Hugh Jackman’s hosting. Isn’t it more fun when Hollywood mostly does not pretend to be anything other than beautiful escapist entertainment? And as such super populist and also important because sometimes the only place where truth can be spoken? Baby Z and I were [...]
(No I am not making that up. And yes there is something very wrong with this particular pairing of different segments of American culture. But the occasion (the occasion!): we are moving to Brooklyn! Wee!) Dear Realtor, As someone you’d like to extract money from in the form of a commission payed on property sold [...]
My daughter, she is obsessed with me. In her eyes, I can do no wrong, when I come back after being away for a couple of hours she starts to make her way towards me, nearly as fast as the dog, even though she can’t even crawl yet. Tonight while I was getting her bath [...]
“…when brown can stick around, when yellow can be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will do what’s right.” (From Rev. Joseph Lowery’s benediction at the Obama Inauguration.)
Happy 2009 to us all! After the darkest week of the year, things got brighter and cheerier. Also colder. Like Eszter, I’m not much given to New Year’s resolutions. If there is something I want to do, having that kind of time constraint even gets in my way. For example, let’s say I resolve to [...]
I. Baby Z has progressed from trying to pull herself forward with her lips to almost being over the army crawl. She can propel herself forward with her little legs so fast that she now typically flies right over her arms and onto her face. Flat, splat. It doesn’t seem to hurt her but she [...]
I don’t, A does. Less and less, and even less these days, but still. And every time he has a cold of the more bronchial variety I freak out that it’s an early sign of some much more serious and unfairly deadly disease I really, really, really don’t want him to have. Unfairly deadly because [...]
I. Celebratory I meant to write a special post to my daughter but made the mistake of keeping it in my head too long and it grew more and more special until all the specialness finally just ate it right up. Faustina is now six months old. More precisely she turned six months old on [...]
There are unbelievable amounts of tschotschkes around our house that A and I have been collecting since our respective childhoods. Or as they’re known in the Hungarian language: dust-collection devices. I’ve been schlepping mine with me from continent to continent and country to country and plan to do so wherever life throws me. They are [...]
I want to record how I feel this morning, after the election. But everything I can think of writing is a bit inadequate. Nevertheless. It is one of those rare occasions when what should have happened did: Barack Hussein Obama is our new President-Elect. It is one of those rare occasions when what should matter [...]
Faustina laughed out loud for the first time today. I was giving her a bath tonight, trying to imitate what her father does (he’s away on business for a few days – so I’ve taken over bath duty), squirting water on her belly with the crocodile bath toy. And she laughed. And laughed again. It [...]
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