Recent Posts Tagged With 'life'

• I Got Mail!

  Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 23:37 in life, breast cancer, in praise of true friends

  I had a very nice surprise tonight…Apparently, someone out there with some very good connections likes me a lot, and they decided to tell me so via one of those tiny lingering bastions of communal human hope – the mail box. I mean really,...

• Highs and lows

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 09:31 in life, this time this year, if i'd known than what i know now, wedding stuff

  When I turned 20 I was living in France for my study abroad. It was already then concluded to be the best year of my life. It’s hard to describe why, other than feeling like the world was made up of fellow 20-year-olds, situated on the beach of...

• Married!

  Posted on Sunday April 26th, 2009 at 18:41 in life, this time this year, wedding stuff

  We’ve done it. After 18 months of engagement and planning, the wedding has finally come and gone and oh my goodness what fun it was. Let me just say this - we are so, unbelievably spoiled. In family, in friends, in generosity, in affection. At ...

• And here I thought I was keeping my head above water

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 22:44 in life, work, if i'd known than what i know now

  About a year ago I got mail from the IRS. I wasn’t worried. What could they want from little old me? I was being audited for my 2005 taxes. That’s what. In 2005 I was still in grad school, living in Belgium and commuting to NYC for work. ...

• When it’s bad it’s bad. And when it’s good…it’s really, really good

  Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 16:42 in life, work, this time this year

  So I left you practically in mid-sentence. I’d been sitting on my butt for 2 days waiting for work to call. I had volunteered to be “short-called” - which means called with less than 2 hours until departure - and wow did it work out...

• Payback

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 20:50 in life, work

  Early December on reserve (where I have to “wait by the phone” to be cover a trip that someone else calls in sick/misses departure for) was quite easy. Work was so slow that they actually released me from duty for 5 days in a row! I think...

• Encounters

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 14:31 in life, work, this time this year

  A few days ago I was working a flight from Paris back to the US. I was in coach, and we were packed to the gills. We had already completed the first drink service for the entire cabin, as well as the 2nd round with lunch. Now I was pulling the 300 po...

• Finishing Touches

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 10:33 in life, humor, surgery, breast cancer, this time this year, reconstruction ("upgrade"!)

  I’ve been moving nonstop for weeks it seems. Del and I were in England for a week or so doing wedding stuff, then I had to go to Belgium to get some finishing touches done with my plastic surgeon. I’m not going to go into great detail as,...