My Dog is Chelsea

A lot has happened. I’ve been out of town a lot lately—first to the coast for a work-related writing retreat, and then to Utah for skiing with my family. Here’s Part I of the vacation recap: Renting a car for the first time proved to be not nearly as glorious as I had imagined it [...]

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So. Where do we begin? The last 10 days, in a nutshell: • Thursday: Finished everything that I needed to do at work at the last possible second, just in time to come home, pack and catch the red-eye to Newark. • After taking a nap on Friday morning, I borrowed my mother’s car and [...]

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[Ed. Note: I am alive, despite my absence from the blogging world. To be honest, I finished writing this post days ago, and I'm not quite sure why I never posted it. I think it has something to do with the fact that seeing the fam and being at the wedding was exactly what I [...]

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“Grandma?” “Who’s this?” “It’s Laura.” My phone conversations with my grandmother invariably follow this pattern. “Oh, hiya Laurie!” She babysits for someone named Laurie, and that confuses her a bit. I have come to learn to respond to any variation of Laur-. “How are you? Are you in school? Do you have a boyfriend?” “I’m [...]

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Now that it’s been two weeks since I posted Part I of my Aunt Joanne story (which I recommend reading, if you haven’t already, before you delve into this one) I suppose it has lost some momentum. But now that my deadlines have passed, I feel 78% better and all out of town guests have [...]

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