Month: March 2013
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My Birthday
I celebrated my birthday last week too, three days after my mom’s. I spent the day itself in an all-day Content Management System training and then put on my new jeans and a top I got for five dollars one of the recent times I was in America, I don’t remember which, and met a…
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Her Birthday
Today is my mom’s birthday. She’d be sixty-seven. I woke up early to dye my hair this morning and thought, “Oh, I’ll Skype her while it’s setting,” just for a tiny, terrible moment. I’ve been wanting to call her for days. This time last year I was in Miami with her, making pasta for her…
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Baking
I’m only working part-time at the moment and my work is just a half-hour’s walk from my house so I have what feels like the most free time since I was in kindergarden, these days. I do things like go for swims in my new, highly supportive and highly unflattering one-piece togs and get documents…