Once again I am sitting in LaGuardia Airport in New York waiting for my flight home. LaGauardia is a very emotionally charged airport for me. I am either landing here with my heart jumping out of my chest in anticipation of seeing my niecelettes, or I am waiting for my flight home feeling sad, conflicted, …
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My week with my niecelettes has gone by much too quickly. Although I feel like I have just arrived, there is also a piece of me that is ready to go home. I just wish I didn’t live to far away from them so I could see them more often. A friend of mine recently …
Last night I arrived at my brother’s house to a very pleasant surprise. One of my niecelettes, A, was wide awake having a late-night (at least for her) snack with her mom. After a whole bunch of hugs and kisses, the east coasters declared it bedtime for all. After all, they have school and work …
The word shpilkes is both a simple and a very nuanced term. It can be loosely defined as fidgety, nervous energy. But that really only scrapes the surface of the original Yiddish meaning. Shpilkes occupies that space between boredom and agitation. That place where focusing is just as impossible as sitting still. Like when you …
It has been a whirlwind kind of a day so far. Last night I chose the wrong setting on my alarm clock, so I woke up later than I intended. Not only did I get some unintended extra sleep, but I was woken by my cat who very rarely deigns to come upstairs to the …
My primary computer is a Linux machine running Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander). If that doesn’t make sense to you, don’t worry. I only mention it for context. The only important take-away is that the operating system gets updates twice a year. About a year ago, I started having issues with my web camera (which is …
First thing this morning I had an appointment for a pap smear. Not the best of ways to start a day, but at least I was going to get this unpleasant responsibility out of the way early. All went fine on the testing front. What didn’t go as fine was my reaction to the doctor …
Once again I am hitting crunch time before a trip east. I wrote up a to do list this morning and it freaked me out. I decided to give my brain some time to absorb the magnitude of my workload by writing a post. It is a distraction tactic I have used before and it …
Last night before I fell asleep I had a brilliant idea for a post. I failed to record it and this morning I am finding myself without any clue of what it was. To make matters worse, I am uploading a huge number of files to a site I am working on, and that gives …
After two difficult family meetings, we have all (my father included) decided it is time to move to 24/7 care for my father. The original plan had been to move my father into the spare room so my mother could retain her privacy. But at her request, my father will, at least for now, remain …