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On promises, privacy and adoptees’ right to know

A friend messaged me yesterday to call my attention to a Diane Rehm program on NPR about how adoptees and birth parents are using DNA testing to try to find each other. Of course, I had to tune in, keeping the show in the background while I worked. By then it was several hours past … Continue reading →

Repeating history, yet again

I will NEVER learn. Nineteen years and counting, and I STILL can’t stop myself from inviting Basil on shopping trips. (My husband, that is, not the herb.) And every single time, I spend most of the trip either trying to move him along or traversing every square inch of the store trying to find where … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Mostly Bright Ideas:
Most of us spent our childhoods bouncing back and forth between our own wants and the demands of various authority figures. In many ways, it seemed like some kind of game that we woke up in the middle of, and that required us to figure out the rules as…

Snow fun

Yesterday was our first snow day of the year — a small storm, but just big enough to bring all activity to a halt  in lower Fairfield County. My Jazzercise class was canceled; lunch with a friend got postponed, and I found my heart singing a bit at the idea that I could spend the … Continue reading →

Back where I belong

Home, sweet home! Interstate 95 never looked as good as it did early Wednesday morning, my driver speeding north from JFK airport to Old Greenwich. Thank goodness the delay I encountered at SFO lasted only three hours. With the onboard toilet finally unclogged, we passengers pushed and shoved our way onto the plane home, then … Continue reading →

My travel plans are not up in the air

My adventures in flying have taken a hard left. Here I sit in SFO with I don’t know how many others, waiting for news about a flight that was to have left 90 minutes ago. The holdup isn’t some huge problem with the landing gear; it’s not a terrorist plot; there’s no hole in the … Continue reading →

There’s no place like home

Well, I made it. The plane trip West wasn’t nearly as awful as I imagined — I didn’t have a harrowing journey, suffer mechanical difficulties, wasn’t left on the runway, didn’t lose my luggage or my mind (well, not yet). In fact, I relished the time alone and secretly cheered that I didn’t have any … Continue reading →

Plane truth

Another week, another milestone, it seems. I’m headed West today, all the way to the Left Coast, on a business trip. My first one ever. Yes, you read that correctly. Nearly 46 and never been in business class. I am not much of a traveler, even by car (I still need to ride in the … Continue reading →

Spare me the ‘Shore’ Thing — unless it’s Cabot Cove

You wouldn’t believe the excitement here right now. You see, yesterday was Jersday and now that dinner is eaten and the table is cleared, Catherine and Basil are crowded around the DVR to watch the season premiere of “Jersey Shore.” Catherine is wearing her “Jersey Shore” sweats and Snooki slippers for the occasion, hoping to … Continue reading →

Life’s a beach

New year, new opportunities to find a better balance. I’m determined to do it this year — continue to work hard, play hard and not lose my mind in the process. Stop laughing. It’s possible, I’m convinced of it. Jan. 1 found us taking down the Christmas tree. It was no easy task. Many of … Continue reading →